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Chris Helgren / Reuters
Hundreds of messages of support from the community of Peckham are seen posted on a looted storefront in the south London district on August 10.
As msnbc.com reports today, the streets of London were generally calmer on Tuesday evening as residents in several districts stood guard to protect their neighborhoods alongside a noticeably larger police presence.
In Peckham, which saw violence on Monday night, people turned the boards covering a damaged store into an impromptu tribute to the strengths of their community. The Mirror newspaper printed a selection of the messages left under the heading "Why we love Peckham":
"We stand up for each other"
"Love is the key"
"Because there are people who respect each other"
"Diversity + jerk chicken"
"My home"
Peter MacDiarmid / Getty Images
A man posts a note on a 'Peace Wall' on a boarded up window of a discount store in Peckham on August 10.
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Hang in there Brits. These aholes will pass just like any other bad gas.
Hear's to Hope and Change. It is a false hope to get something for nothing, and the change you get is less services higher prices. Who will open a store or office where it will get destroyed or ransacked? Most of theese businesses will never be back. Rioters have destroyed there own neighborhoods and there own sense of community.
Kind of reminds us of our own union thugs that are emboldened with Obama. We witnessed on a smaller, and much tamer scale something similar in WI by the national union thugs when the Republicans took away public union collective bargaining rights in order to balance a budget and achieve great savings for the communities without having to layoff workers. Obama and the Democrats were busing these thugs in from across the country. Luckily for us, the tax payers and Republican Party didn't flinch, and Walker and the Republican party are now great heroes to the state. In three months, they have converted a 3 billion dollar deficit into a surplus.
Irony, Dems don't care because what is good for the state and tax payers right now is not good for their party.