"We've Had Enough:" Spending Cuts and Police Spark UK Riots
Submitted on August 7, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011 - Common Dreams
Anger at high unemployment and cuts in public services, coupled with resentment of the police, contributed to an explosion of violence and looting in a deprived London neighborhood, residents said Sunday..."This is the ghetto, this is the slums, they don't care about us. I've been stopped outside my house by the police for no reason. There's no jobs ... but still they want to cut benefits. We ain't got no way to survive...There's injustice and we've had enough..."
