What is going on in London?

I don't know.  I can't get a straight answer.  Both the BBC and the Telegraph have updates.  Fox News has as good a report as any, certainly better than the crap you'll get from the New York Times, MSNBC, etc., but still leaving out a lot of details, details that may be unknown at this point.

As I understand it, the unrest started when, to quote Fox, "Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old father of four, was gunned down in disputed circumstances Thursday in Tottenham."  The report says later on:

Tottenham is an impoverished area with an ethnically diverse population, a large black community and a history of unrest. Tottenham was the site of the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots, a series of clashes that led to the fatal stabbing of a police officer and the wounding of nearly 60 others -- and underscored tensions between London police and the capital's black community.

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