Riot Article

Eye witness report by Phoebe Alycia Georgiou

The third night of the mayhem across London, the Sony distribution warehouse was ablaze into early hours of the morning, over the Mark Duggan shooting which has caused riots. There were no injuries reported, the police as well as the fire brigade were called just before midnight to the scene in Solar Way, Enfield. Around 40 fire fighters and eight fire engines had been trying to putt out the blaze. Witnesses say the black smoked filled the air, the smell of burning fumes surrounded the Enfield area and the building collapsed. More witnesses say they had seen around 20 looters leaving the warehouse with their hands filled with goods before the warehouse was set on fire. A looter explained that "Police have too much power, and their using that power, my man didnt pull out no gun, no nuttin, they shot him for no reason" he shouted with anger about the shooting of Mark Duggan the cause of these riots. Many say the police are to blame for this and they had it coming. On Enfield high road at about 3 o'clock on Sunday the second night of the mayhem, the streets were filled with youts (local slang for 'youth} with balaclavas and hoodies. Police were already on the scene soon after 3pm but not enough to control the amount of youts present.

 more riots vans started to fill the area as well as police dogs, which youts were winding up and police horse trucks filled Enfield Tesco car park preparing the horses for the nights' events. This happened at about 8pm where police in riot gear flooded the area. The mayhem blew off when a yout bricked a police car and all the looters kicked off, I heard "G-Mantella, G-Mantella" being shouted which is the name of the highstreets jewellers. A dozen looters rushed in and taking goods, quickly disappered as more riot vans came to the scene.

 Police dogs were let into the crowd, I heard a woman shout at the youts "This is what you're doing for Mark? This is how you repay him?" she was referring to Mark Duggan. Later on into the night Enfield's retail park Comet and PC World were broken into and a yout was chased out of Comet by a police dog with the public screaming and watching. Krispy Kremes was also vandalised, youts throwing bricks at the windows while the whole A10 was filled with bricks and smashed glass. While waiting in traffic lights, a yout passed with brand new JD sports bags filled with goods as well as holding a brand new laptop box.

They were seen laughing and smiling towards in their cars at a looting friend. Yet he didn't know riot police were across the road and the police had another cat and mouse chase on their hands.