Top of the Hour: London Riots, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Residents of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and other cities awoke to the smell of smoke and the sound of rioting in the streets. A police incident last week has opened a national wound in the UK. Generational spilts and racial divides, people who believe they have a future battling people who believe they have none.

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