UK struggles to understand riots
England’s worst riots in decades have spread across the country, to northern cities like Manchester Liverpool and Birmingham. Police have made more than 1100 arrests since the violence broke out in London on the weekend, triggered by the shooting death by police of Mark Duggan. Now the flames have been fueled Britain’s Independent Police Complaints Commission saying there’s no evidence that Duggan fired on police first – as had been claimed. But as well riots, the debate continues to rage about just what triggered this mass outpouring of anger from the country’s youth – are they badly behaved thugs, or the unemployed and working poor reacting to austerity measures as predicted in a youtube video by Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg back in April 2010?