Londoners Respond to Riots with Brooms not Brawn

The World

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Sam Duckworth, one of the people who’s been organizing members of the public to come out on the streets with their brooms and dust pans to clean up the areas of London hit by rioting.

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