The riots in the United Kingdom continue for a fourth straight day. On Tuesday, Londoners awoke to torched cars and street scuffles in Ealing, police horses lining up in Lewisham, and stores and residences in flames in Tottenham. Prosperous boroughs in the capital now resemble war zones, as mobs continue to overwhelm police and loot stores. In the last twenty-four hours, disorder has also spread to cities across England, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, and Nottingham.

♦ The riots were sparked in response to the August 4^th killing of Mark Duggan, 29, who was shot and killed by police in the London neighborhood of Tottenham during an anti-firearms operation. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has since announced that two shots were fired by the police. Results of subsequent ballistics tests show that no shots were fired from the gun found at the scene. However, BBC News reports that the “firearms officers discharged their weapons in the belief there was a threat to human life.”