Shot at Clapham Junction, Monday 08th August, 9pm
The first violence at Clapham Junction saw people breaking into Debenhams department store and looting it.
There was one small squad of police in riot gear, standing on St John’s Road near the top of the street, but they were doing nothing whilst people went in and out of Debenhams.
Without anyone advancing on them, they then started to retreat, as the video shows, and quickly disappeared. This was the moment when the mob was given free reign of St John’s Road, which resulted in a hell of a lot more looting and violence.
From 9pm until when I left at 10:30pm, I didn’t see a single other police officer
