In total, 1, 685 people have been arrested and 985 charged following the three days of rioting and looting in London.
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For opportunistic folks who used social media tools to find and jump into recent rioting and looting in London, those same tools could be used to nab them soon enough.
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There are some parallels between the rioting and looting seen in London by disaffected, angry youths, and the recent cyber attacks that online supporters of Anonymous have been carrying out this past year on everyone from PayPal to the FBI to (soon enough apparently) Facebook.
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On Monday afternoon large gangs roamed Peckham and Hackney in east London, looting shops, attacking buses and setting cars and shops alight.
Looting and vandalism broke out in north London in August 2011 before spreading across several cities.
He visited Clapham Junction in south London - one of several areas in London hit by violence and looting over the past few days - alongside Home Secretary Theresa May on Tuesday.
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The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall visited parts of London hit by recent violence and looting.
John Wilkes, of the Hell-Fire Club, faced a similar dilemma during the Gordon Riots of 1780, when an anti-Catholic demonstration in London escalated into an orgy of burning and looting.
While hardly a sympathetic figure, Duggan has become a martyr in the erupting violence in London as police there are unable to control spreading riots and looting in Tottenham, a district in the northern part of the ciy.
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On Sunday night, riots and looting sprang up almost out of nowhere in the north, south, east and west of London.
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