http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8630533/Riots-the-underclass-lashes-out.html
In this article the people who took part in the London riots are labelled 'underclass' and 'feral kids'. This is generalizing all of the participants of the riots as the same stereotypical underclass youth, but this wasn't the case. Although the rioters were mainly 17-25 years old, there were still older people taking part. People up to the age of 40 were even rioting. However, it does mention the 'suspicious circumstances' under which Mark Duggen was shot. This shows that the writer of this article is not completely against the rioters, but also the police as she goes on to say 'One question now hangs over London’s battle-torn high streets. How could this ever happen? Among several obvious answers, one is a failure of policing'. Here she recognizes the somewhat feeble attempts at the restoration of peace by the Metropolitan Police which were criticized heavily.
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