Revive Liverpool

Chapter 93 London Riots
Liverpool's transfer staff immediately went to Tottenham to start contacting Tottenham, preparing for the transfer of Danny Rose.

By the time Liverpool's transfer staff arrived at Tottenham in London, it was almost August.

And Li Nan apparently forgot about the riots that occurred in London in early August 2011, and did not tell the transfer staff of his team to pay attention to his personal safety.

While Liverpool's transfer staff were staying in Tottenham to discuss the transfer, on the night of August 8, riots began in London.

The fuse of the riots was in Tottenham, north London, on August 2011, 8. At that time, the police were preparing to arrest Mark Duggan, who was riding in a taxi.

The Tottenham area has always been a multi-ethnic area - it has gathered a large number of immigrants of African-Caribbean, West African, Turkish, Irish and Portuguese descent.

In the past 30 years, the relationship between various ethnic groups in the Tottenham area has been tense, and the tension between African-Caribbean and the local police has been in a state of tension for a long time.

In addition, Tottenham has a relatively high poverty and unemployment rate. As a poor area in London, the local unemployment rate is nearly twice the national average. Many young people cannot find a job after they come to society.

The gap between the rich and the poor, low social mobility, the economic downturn in the UK and public dissatisfaction with the government's cuts in public spending to reduce debt.

So on the morning of August 8, people in the Tottenham area of ​​London took to the streets to hold peaceful demonstrations to protest police brutality.

The parade starts at Broadwater Farm and ends at Tottenham Police Station.

The demonstration was launched by relatives and friends of the deceased, including local residents and community leaders, to demand truth and justice, and about 200 people participated.

The UK's Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the arrest was part of a crackdown on gun crime that Mark Duggan was a gunman police suspect is linked to the cocaine trade.

Relatives and friends of Mark Duggan claimed that Mark was not armed at the time.

But the IPCC said Mark Duggan was carrying a pistol at the time.

After the incident, the media widely reported that a bullet was found embedded in the police radio, implying that Mark had shot the police.

Later, a police officer spoke to the demonstrators, but they asked for a higher-ranking officer to speak to them.

Dissatisfied with the police's response, the marchers stood in front of the police station for hours longer than they had planned.

According to eyewitnesses, a younger and more agitated crowd also arrived in the evening, some with weapons in their hands.

The violence started when they heard police had attacked a 16-year-old girl.

More than 100 "youths" burned police cars, buses and buildings along the street in the night, cut off traffic, occupied the highway, and looted dozens of shops.

After that, riots began to spread in the area, and illegal and criminal acts such as picking quarrels and provoking trouble, theft, arson, looting of property, and destruction of public and private property and buildings appeared in the parade.

The riots then spread to other parts of London, and even other English cities outside London.

Due to the riots in the London area, many football matches in the London area have been affected. Teams such as West Ham United, Charlton, and Crystal Palace in London have all canceled their League Cup home games at the request of the police.

What saddens the fans the most is the much-watched England-Dutch match. Originally 7 tickets have been sold out.

However, due to potential safety hazards, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police in London said, "Every football match requires a safety assessment, with full consideration given to police dispatch, and this game is no exception."

Immediately afterwards, the FA issued a statement on its official website, announcing the cancellation of the warm-up match between England and the Netherlands scheduled to be held at Wembley Stadium in London.

By August 8, the riots had spread to Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and other major cities in England.

The Liverpool staff who stayed in Tottenham have been staying in the rented hotel for the past few days and did not go to Tottenham to discuss the transfer of Danny Rose.

As for the riots in Liverpool, the Liverpool stars expressed their "dissatisfaction" with the riots, and condemned the people who caused riots in London and Liverpool on their private Weibo, believing that they were destroying the country.

On the 8th, British Prime Minister David Cameron, British Home Secretary Theresa May and London Mayor Boris Johnson, who were on vacation, all ended their vacation early and returned to London.

The British government, which didn't take the riots seriously at first, realized the seriousness of the riots and began to deal with them.

By August 8, the riots had been basically brought under control. The British police announced that they had arrested more than 10 people, of whom 750 would be prosecuted.

The riot is the worst riot in the UK since the riot in Brixton in 1995, and it is also the first riot in London.

更是自伦敦大轰炸（1940年9月7日至1941年5月10日，二战时由**德国实施）后，伦敦发生的波及人数最多且最紧张的事件。

After the riot happened, it immediately attracted the attention of major news media around the world, and the image of London was greatly damaged. People also had great doubts and worries about the security situation of the upcoming 2012 London Olympic Games.

The Chinese news media Netease News also reported a piece of news "London riots are terrible, the 2012 Olympics may be hosted by BJ".

Western news media also reported on the incident, "You can imagine how much pressure the police would have if such an incident happened during the Olympic Games." Travers, an expert at the London School of Economics and Political Science, said when accepting media reports, "So I think this riot will definitely cause great concern to the London City Hall and the British Home Office."

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, had to come forward to accept an interview with British National Radio, and promised that "social instability will not be possible" during the London Olympics next year, promising that similar violence will not spread to international sports events.

On the 11th, after the riots in London were truly under control, the transfer of Liverpool and Tottenham could continue.

(End of this chapter)