There are probably any number of reasons why this Manchester American Apparel store had its windows smashed during the civil unrest that has been roiling in the U.K. but none of the rioters appear to have stolen any clothes. Maybe the police showed up just in the nick of time. Maybe everyone had just finished looting…
"We're not gathering together to fight for a cause, we're running down Foot Locker and thieving shoes, dirty thieves," shouted a British woman, shaking her cane at the wreckage, in a video that's now gone viral.
I'm huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. Britain is a tinderbox, and on Friday, somebody lit a match. How the hell did this happen? And what are we going to do now?
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Remember that beautiful image of the kiss that was never a kiss, taken during the Vancouver hockey riots? We knew that it wasn't really what it seemed to be, but now we can actually see how it happened:
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Students at a Manhattan high school staged a riot when their bathroom privileges were taken away. We can't say we totally blame them.
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Rioters attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles last night in what some are calling the UK's "worst political violence in years."
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[Xinjian Province, China; July 7. Image via Getty]
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[Athens, Greece; May 9. Image via Getty]
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Since Kenya's disputed election last week, hundreds of women and children have been raped during the widespread rioting between different ethnic tribes. President Mwai Kibaki, who is accused of rigging the election, is part of the Kikuyu tribe. His challenger, Raila Odinga, is part of the Luo tribe. Most of the…
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