Ellie-Jo Taylor, who comes from a nationalist background in Derry, believes impressionable young people are being coerced into violence by adults. Ellie-Jo called for greater cross-community involvement with young people and said the only long-term solution was more integrated education.
Joel, who is from a loyalist area in Belfast, believes young people are starting to believe that their identity is "under attack".
In Belfast, two football clubs on either side of a loyalist and nationalist interface have urged young people not to get involved in the violence. In a statement, St James Swift's FC said: "We have been encouraged to make this statement after seeing our friends at Sandy Row FC showing great leadership in asking people to stay away from these interfaces.
Matthew Bell, who is a unionist from Omagh, County Tyrone, is optimistic about the future, despite the recent violence. He believes a number of cross-community initiatives are helping to bring future generations from different backgrounds together. Matthew believes those involved in the rioting are a minority who do not represent the wider views of unionism, but says the clashes demonstrate there are serious concerns which must be addressed urgently. He urged unionist politicians to do everything in their power to address those concerns and appealed for young people involved in the rioting to reconsider their actions.
Police say 19 officers injured in latest violence. We're trying to get their attention. People are crying out for help. I was passing through Mare Street, [in Hackney, east London] and saw a lot of looting.
There was a wide range of people there: young people, mothers, some people who were definitely at uni. I can't say why they were doing it but I think this whole Mark Duggan [shot by police in Tottenham, north London] thing is an excuse.
People are using that as an open door to get free stuff. People are angry with the police though, that is real. They have mistreated youth, I've experienced that myself.
I was walking out of a jewellery shop the other day and I was searched. I'd say I've been searched at least six times this year, they've never found anything on me. I know my white friends don't get searched as much. We know that the cause of the upheaval is that a young man died at the hands of the police and we haven't been able to get any truthful answers or a comprehensive statement as to what happened. The relationship between the police and the black community is obviously not good, so when anything happens with the police and the community feels they're not being co-operated with, it creates an explosion and that's what you've seen.
I think this [rioting] is criminal behaviour but the police have shown criminal behaviour against a lot of the young people, they stop and search us disproportionately. And young people feel they don't have a voice or they don't have the energy or the power to press charges because they feel they won't get anywhere.
According to witnesses, they had been protecting their community and local businesses from looting and destruction. An extra 1, police officers were deployed in London and more than people were arrested.
It is thought that social media networks including Twitter and BlackBerry Messenger played a key role in fuelling the unrest. By 11 August, the total number of arrests in London had reached 1, and of those, people had been charged. One hundred families had been made homeless as a result of the unrest, five people had died and 26 police officers were injured. The situation was reaching a tipping point and, by the fourth night of the riots, London increased its number of police to 16, by pulling in officers from other forces across the country.
This greater police presence on the streets was the major factor in persuading people to stay at home, according to the Reading the Riots study, which interviewed people involved in the events. Other explanations for the riots ending included a lack of excitement and there being nothing left to loot. To this day, questions remain surrounding the events which led to the shooting. However, Forensic Architecture, a human rights research organisation based at Goldsmiths, University of London, has said this conclusion is wrong, according to a detailed report in The Guardian published in In , Cameron agreed to establish the Riots Communities and Victims Panel to investigate the causes of the riots and consider what more could be done to build greater social and economic resilience in communities.
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