POLICE cars were torched, shops looted and a bus burned out as a major riot erupted in North London last night.
Petrol bombs were thrown as hundreds of protesters rampaged in Tottenham, after local anger over the fatal shooting of a young man gangster by cops.
An initially-peaceful demonstration had been held outside a police station on the area's High Road from about 5pm, where locals called for "justice" after the 29-year-old man named as Mark Duggan was killed on Thursday night.
But witnesses said as anger turned to violence, hundreds more protesters appeared on the scene - apparently alerted by people using Twitter.
Police, who had apparently been expecting trouble, responded with hundreds of heavily-protected riot officers as well as mounted police while fire crews struggled to get near the blazes.
It is not believed that any officers were inside the police cars when they were attacked and set on fire.
Looters were reportedly hurrying away from wrecked stores with trolleys loaded with stolen goods.
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