The first picture shows three hooded (one masked) teenagers waiting for nightfall to join the riots. Shortly after taking this picture, a riot van stopped beside them and a half-dozen cops jumped out to search and question them, breaking them up. After the van left, they gathered again but walked away (unmasked) -- one awkward, the others trying to look cool, all of them obviously embarrassed by the incident seen by many in the apartment building, hotel, and people on the street. Soon after, a riot van stopped on Pershore near Bromsgrove and scattered a group of about twenty hooded people.
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| Early on the second and worst night of the riots, smoke rises from a vehicle set aflame several blocks away from my hotel. |
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| Police patrolling New Street the morning after the first night of riots. |
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| The Tesco Express (small grocery store near the hotel) on the corner of Bromsgrove and Hurst Streets the day after the first night of riots. It was attacked again the second night but police broke up the group before they could do much damage. |
