 "Video: 'Copycat' violence causing spread of London riots")
As the riots in London continue, British Prime Minister David Cameron has reconvened a special session of parliament on Thursday and promised to have more policemen on the streets.
He condemned what he called “sickening scenes of people looting, vandalising, thieving, robbing”.
Firstpost’s editor at large Kevin Anderson who is based out of London, said that while some of the riots have a specific flashpoint like in the case of Tottenham, a lot of areas like Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester are engaged in ‘copy cat’ violence.
In this video, Anderson notes that although the geographical spread of the riots is quite wide, the violence itself is quite concentrated in the high street, where all the retail shops are located and the looting is taking place.
Meanwhile the government has also been shown up badly in the riots, as key figures have been absent during the last three days. There is a real sense of a political vacuum created by the fact that it is August and its holiday seasons
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