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    Photo gallery: Riots break out in north London

    A protest in the wake of police shooting turns ugly

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    <p>A woman walks through the debris with two children as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London on August 6 2011. Two police cars were on Saturday set ablaze in north London following a protest over the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in an armed stand-off with officers. The patrol cars were torched as dozens gathered outside the police station on the High Road in Tottenham. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)</p>

    A woman walks through the debris with two children as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London on August 6 2011. Two police cars were on Saturday set ablaze in north London following a protest over the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man in an armed stand-off with officers. The patrol cars were torched as dozens gathered outside the police station on the High Road in Tottenham. (LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images)

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