Overview
- Met officers imposed a dispersal order and deployed about 100 officers in Clapham on Tuesday after crowds of teenagers gathered on the high street and common.
- Six girls aged 13 to 17 have been arrested across Saturday and Tuesday, with a 17-year-old charged with assaulting an emergency worker and two 13-year-olds bailed.
- Five people were assaulted, including four police officers, and one officer went to hospital as a precaution with an arm injury sustained during an arrest.
- Shops shut early, some staff locked customers inside for safety, and fires and fireworks were reported on Clapham Common as youths tried to enter stores and a restaurant.
- Detectives are reviewing CCTV and body-worn video to identify offenders and organisers linked to social media ‘link-ups’, and the Met says a stronger local presence will continue.