Cameron deploys 10,000 more police to stop London riots
LONDON — Prime Minister David Cameron called Tuesday for an emergency session of Parliament and announced an almost tripling of police on London streets, after the capital and other British cities burned in this nation's worst civil disturbances in decades.
Cameron, who cut short a vacation in Italy on Monday night as the violence escalated, decried the "sickening scenes" of gangs of youths looting shops, setting businesses ablaze and clashing with police in neighborhoods across London.
Effectively acknowledging that the embattled Metropolitan Police had been completely overwhelmed — images showed riot police standing by as rioters looted and set buildings ablaze — Cameron said a force some 16,000 strong would take to the streets Tuesday evening, up from 6,000 a day earlier.
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