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Rioters say anger with police fuelled summer unrest

Widespread anger and frustration at the way police engage with communities was a significant cause of the summer riots in every major city where disorder took place, the biggest study into their cause has found.

Hundreds of interviews with people who took part in the disturbances which spread across England in August revealed deep-seated and sometimes visceral antipathy towards police.

In a unique collaboration, the Guardian and London School of Economics (LSE) interviewed 270 people who rioted in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Nottingham, Manchester and Salford.

The project collected more than 1.3m words of first-person accounts from rioters, giving an unprecedented insight into what drove people to participate in England's most serious bout of civil unrest in a generation. Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.

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I was in Spain when all this took place, shared hotels with people who had empty houses near by. They were stressed.

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Tags: UK, police 02.Apr.12

Tottenham in flames as riot follows protest

Two police cars, a bus and several shops were attacked and set ablaze in north London on Saturday night as violence and looting erupted following a protest demanding "justice" over a fatal police shooting.

Officers on horseback and others in riot gear clashed with hundreds of ┬нrioters armed with makeshift missiles in the centre of Tottenham after Mark Duggan, 29, a father of four, was killed on Thursday.

On Sunday morning police said there remained isolated incidents in the Tottenham area involving "a small number of people" and officers were still dealing with those situations. Eight officers were being treated in hospital, one with head injuries, following the violence overnight.

The London Fire Brigade said all fires were now "under control" after trouble spread overnight from Tottenham High Road to Tottenham Hale Retail Park and a supermarket was set on fire.

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Tags: UK 27.Feb.12

Behind the riots: what young people think about the 2011 summer unrest

From today, the Guardian will be launching a series of articles on the August riots, written by sociologists living or working in the areas affected, based on interviews with young people involved
Following David Cameron's call for a sociological analysis of the riots "when the dust settles", sociologists from universities around the UK have come together to provide an initial analysis of the riots.

The articles contained in this series cover nine affected areas: Birmingham, Manchester, Salford, Brixton, Clapham, Hackney, Lewisham, Wood Green and Walworth. The last six areas are in London. Three weeks after the action, the articles provide important insights into the causes, motivations, actions and consequences of the disturbances. Through interviews with young people, they start to illustrate much-needed local pictures of what happened in different places and why.

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Following David Cameron's call for a sociological analysis of the riots "when the dust settles", sociologists from universities around the UK have come together to provide an initial analysis of the riots.
From today, the Guardian will be launching a series of articles on the August riots, written by sociologists living or working in the areas affected, based on interviews with young people involved
Following David Cameron's call for a sociological analysis of the riots "when the dust settles", sociologists from universities around the UK have come together to provide an initial analysis of the riots.

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Tags: UK 27.Feb.12