Photo: REUTERS Police in riot gear drag a man along a street in Hackney, East London
Violence ………… (break out) in two more British cities, while London ………….. (endure) its third straight night of rioting.
Police in Birmingham and in Liverpool …………………(report) fires and looting. A Liverpool police spokesman …………………………. (say) police ……………………………….. (take) swift and robust action to what he ………………………………….(call) "isolated outbreaks of disorder."
British Prime Minister David Cameron ……………………………… (cut) short a vacation in Italy and ………………………… (rush) back to London to deal with some of the city's worst rioting in years.
Buildings, cars and bus stops …………………………………… (burn) and police ………………………………….. (fight) with young people for a third straight night Monday in several London neighborhoods. Stores and restaurants …………………………..(loot) and police …………………………….. (throw) gasoline bombs.
The violence ……………………………….(break out) after police ……………………………………(shoot) to death a 29-year-old man in London's economically depressed Tottenham neighborhood late last week.
A peaceful demonstration marking his death …………………………. (explode) into violence Saturday when protesters …………………………..(throw) stones at police, ……………………………………… (smash) store windows, and ……………………………………..(set) cars and buses on fire.
Police ………………………………………(arrest) 215 people so far. Thirty-five police ………………. (hurt), including three policemen who ………………………………(run )over by a car while ………………………………… (try) to make arrests.
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ………………………….(call) the violence "needless," "opportunistic" and "completely unacceptable." Home Secretary Theresa May ………………………. (condemn) the rioters as criminals.
But London residents …………………………….. (say) the riots ……………………………. (trigger) by anger over the gloomy economic situation in north London, including high unemployment and reduced public services.
Tottenham ……………………….. (be) home to a large number of ethnic minorities and ……………………………..(have) a history of racial tensions. In 1985, a police officer …………………..(kick) to death there when Afro-Caribbean youths in a deprived housing estate ……………………… (go) on a rampage.
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