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Prime Minister David Cameron has called an emergency session of Parliament after violent riots continued into their third night.
Since Saturday, police have arrested more than 500 people and one person has died. It is the worst rioting in Britain since the 1980s.
The Washington Post reports, the violence has now spread to other cities:
“…to Birmingham, the country’s second-largest city, as well as Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds and Nottingham.
The Prime Minister David Cameron recalled Parliament from its summer vacation. The Telegraph reports, Mr. Cameron announced an extra 10,000 police officers would be deployed to deal with the disorder.
“These are sickening scenes, scenes of people looting, vandalizing, thieving, robbing ... This is criminality, pure and simple, and it has to be confronted and defeated ... I am determined, the government is determined, that justice will be done and these people will see the consequences of their actions.”
Beyond condemnation of the rioters, some people are seeking reasons for the scale of the violence.
NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher points out, the riots reveal London’s two worlds.
“Anger. Hopelessness. A complete lack of social values. All this is true…The lives of most rioters are so far removed from those of the country's leaders it’s like they occupy different planets… They feel they deserve a slice of the cake too. Their sense of entitlement is this: We are entitled to steal what we can.”
All of it -- as London prepares for the 2012 Olympics.
The city’s Olympic Park is situated just three miles from the rioting and disturbances in Hackney. For now, the International Olympic Committee says it still has confidence in London.
"Security at the Olympic Games is a top priority for the IOC... It is, however, directly handled by the local authorities, as they know best what is appropriate and proportionate. We are confident they will do a good job in this domain."
But for now, police haven’t been able to control gangs of thugs. According to the UK’s Ten News, Cameron is now considering calling on the military -- to bring the riots under control.
“That meeting will take place in the next 12 hours. So we could see troops on the streets removing these teenagers doing what the police haven’t been able to do. These riots have been able to spread not just within one community -- that being Tottenham -- but further north, further south and further east."
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