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    Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis It’s 20 years since the race riots sparked by the police beating of Rodney King that shook Los Angeles and the US. See how the LA streets affected look now and how the news was covered with reports from our archive: From the archive: Riots fire US race divide The United States was tottering last night on the brink of a new racial crisis, pitting black against white in the nation’s cities, which turned Los Angeles into a war zone on Wednesday night. In Atlanta, the last resting place of Martin Luther King, students went on a copycat rampage in a shopping mall. Police reported a number of beatings and arrests. In Washington, President Bush went on television to appeal for calm, trying to contain a potentially explosive situation nationwide after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers accused of beating a black motorist, Rodney King.

    Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

    It’s 20 years since the race riots sparked by the police beating of Rodney King that shook Los Angeles and the US. See how the LA streets affected look now and how the news was covered with reports from our archive:

    From the archive: Riots fire US race divide

    The United States was tottering last night on the brink of a new racial crisis, pitting black against white in the nation’s cities, which turned Los Angeles into a war zone on Wednesday night. In Atlanta, the last resting place of Martin Luther King, students went on a copycat rampage in a shopping mall. Police reported a number of beatings and arrests. In Washington, President Bush went on television to appeal for calm, trying to contain a potentially explosive situation nationwide after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers accused of beating a black motorist, Rodney King.

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    Photographs of the year 2011 This is absolutely my favourite shot. I saw on TV that Reeves corner in Croydon was on fire and decided to go and have a look. There was a small crowd of people in their pyjamas, from the flats which were on fire. A Romanian man pushed through the crowd to the police, shouting that there was a woman still in the building. The next minute I saw two little feet on the window ledge of the second floor. After a few seconds she just fell. The police and crowd below didn’t really catch her, it was more like they broke her fall. She was crying and ran off really quickly Photograph: WENN/Amy Weston

    Photographs of the year 2011

    This is absolutely my favourite shot. I saw on TV that Reeves corner in Croydon was on fire and decided to go and have a look. There was a small crowd of people in their pyjamas, from the flats which were on fire. A Romanian man pushed through the crowd to the police, shouting that there was a woman still in the building. The next minute I saw two little feet on the window ledge of the second floor. After a few seconds she just fell. The police and crowd below didn’t really catch her, it was more like they broke her fall. She was crying and ran off really quickly Photograph: WENN/Amy Weston

  5. Round up: Reading the Riots and technology

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    An image of a burning bus in Tottenham was one of the first to spread rapidly via Twitter. Photograph: GA/Rex Features

    We’ve posted a number of pieces on guardian.co.uk as part of our Reading the Riots study about how social networks and technology were used during the UK unrest in August. Here’s a round up of some of our coverage:

    See all the reports from the Reading the Riots study here.

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    Reading the riots: ‘The police arrest people for no reason, they stop and check us for no reason, we thought we’d get our own back’

    Research by the Guardian and London School of Economics into the summer riots has revealed that many of those involved were motivated by a hatred of the police. Here Paul Lewis presents testimony from the rioters, all of whom are speaking for the first time.

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  9. QOTD: Russell Brand

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    However unacceptable the UK riots, we need to ask why they are happening, writes Russell Brand.

    As we sweep away the mistakes made in the selfish, nocturnal darkness we must ensure that, amidst the broken glass and sadness, we don’t sweep away the youth lost amongst the shards in the shadows cast by the new dawn.

    More analysis and reflection of events in London and other UK cities this week at this link

  10. Video of the day: ‘The three who died, died nobly. Don’t riot in their name’

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    By John Domokos and Mustafa Khalili

    At an emotional vigil for the three men killed during riots in Birmingham, Sikhs and Muslims debate the best response to tensions in the city.

    Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shahzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31 were part of a group of around 80 people guarding a petrol station and shops from looters in Winson Green when they were the victims of a hit-and-run early on Wednesday.

    More on the UK riots from Guardian.co.uk at this link.

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