Qualla: 2011 England Riots https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 2011 England Riots https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots 2011 England Riots: Introduction https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0. Mark Duggan was twenty-nine years old when armed officers stopped the minicab he was riding in on the Ferry Lane bridge by Tottenham Hale station. It was the afternoon of 4 August 2011. A few seconds later he was dead. Two days after that, his family and friends marched to Tottenham police station to demand answers. By nightfall on 6 August, Tottenham was burning. Over the next five days a wave of looting, fire, and confrontation moved out from north London through Hackney, Brixton, Croydon, and Ealing, then jumped to Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol. Five people died. Nearly two thousand were eventually charged. England spent the rest of the summer trying to work out what it had just been part of.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 2011 England Riots: Tottenham, 6 August https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Ollios, CC BY-SA 3.0. The march that started the riots was peaceful. About 300 friends and relatives of Mark Duggan walked from the Broadwater Farm estate to Tottenham police station to demand that a senior officer come out and speak. The senior officer they got was a chief inspector. The crowd waited...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-tottenham-6-august.mp3 0:06 2 full 2011 England Riots: What the Bullet Did Not Do https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Gordon Joly, CC BY 2.5. In the first hours, the press widely reported that a bullet had been found embedded in a police radio, implying that Duggan had fired on the officers. A loaded converted blank-firing pistol was indeed recovered from the scene, wrapped in a sock. The Independent Police Complaints ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-what-the-bullet-did-not-do.mp3 0:06 3 full 2011 England Riots: Copycat Nights https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Senseiich, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 7 August rioting spread to Brixton, Enfield, Islington, Wood Green, and Oxford Circus. On 8 August it left London. Birmingham city centre was looted. So were parts of Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and Bristol. Smaller flares went up in Gillingham, ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-copycat-nights.mp3 0:06 4 full 2011 England Riots: The Dead https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Colonel Warden, CC BY-SA 3.0. Trevor Ellis, twenty-six, from Brixton Hill, was shot dead in Croydon on 8 August. Thirteen people were arrested in connection with his murder, all later released without charge. On 10 August in Winson Green, Birmingham, three men - Haroon Jahan, twenty-one, and brothers Shahzad ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-the-dead.mp3 0:06 5 full 2011 England Riots: Tariq Jahan https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Gordon Joly, CC BY 2.5. Within hours of his son's death, Haroon Jahan's father Tariq stood in front of a crowd in Birmingham, his voice steady, and called for calm. There had been talk of racial reprisal - the driver who killed his son was Black, Haroon and the brothers were British Pakistani. Tariq Jah...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-tariq-jahan.mp3 0:06 6 full 2011 England Riots: The Riot Wombles and the Reckoning https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Stuart Grout, CC BY 2.0. Tens of thousands of Londoners turned out the morning after each night of rioting with brooms and bin-bags to clear streets they did not own. The press called them riot wombles. Sikh communities in Southall stood guard at their gurdwaras through the night. Turkish, Kurdish, Bangl...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/2011-england-riots-wp/gcpv-2011-england-riots-the-riot-wombles-and-the-reckoning.mp3 0:06 7 full 2011 England Riots: Tottenham Today https://qualla.com/2011-england-riots/ Photo credit Victoria from London, UK, CC BY 2.0. Walk down the High Road in Tottenham today and you would not necessarily know what happened here. The Carpetright building has been replaced. The bus stop where the protest gathered carries a small plaque. The names - Mark Duggan, Trevor Ellis, Haroon Jahan, Shahzad Ali, Abdul Mu...

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