JHLewis commented Five years on, the lessons of Nottingham riots

It was 10pm and out of a mob of 30 to 40 masked youths flew the petrol bombs that could have destroyed Canning Circus police station. The attack five years ago was the stand-out incident in the two nights of rioting that disfigured Nottingham. Police stations in Bulwell, St Ann's and The Meadows also came under attack on nights of August 8 and 9, 2011 – but Nottinghamshire Police were not the only targets in the copycat disorder that followed the London shooting of Mark Duggan, four days..