Amid the worsening and spreading unrest throughout Britain, an analyst says the incident was sparked by police forces that were heavily armed.
The whole incident was "sparked by the police carrying fire arms" that they never used to carry in the past across Britain, said Ian Williams, of Foreign Policy in Focus, in a Wednesday interview with Press TV.
"The fact that they had the fire arms and they were prepared to use them, in very dubious circumstances, shows the reduction in the civility of British life over the last few decades,” he underlined.
British analysts condemned Prime Minister David Cameron for authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water cannons to suppress the widespread protests, contrary to his earlier claims of being a strong defender of protesters all over the world, particularly in Libya and Syria.
The unprecedented protests and violence broke out last week when peaceful demonstrators took to the streets in Tottenham, London.
However, violent protests soon spread to other major cities like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Bristol, creating trouble for the British government and the Metropolitan Police. Protest outbreaks were also reported in Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Reading, and Oxford.
Williams pointed out that many images of protesters posted on internet sites showed “people standing around talking.”
The main root of the problem to the unrest is the disappearing of skilled manual jobs and the increase in tuition fees and "there is nothing now between having a university degree and being a bank clerk.... the gates have slammed shut at them [the people] at every level,” he said.
The analyst noted that the UK police were not facing freedom fighters but a group of people marginalized “by government policies, by economic circumstances, and by the galloping greed of the ruling classes.”
“There has been a total deterioration of civil societies and living standards” in the country, he emphasized.
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