Riots London 2011: Part 4

This is the extraordinary moment a frail West Indian pensioner stands up to a rioting mob and castigates them for their behavior.
The woman, who is believed to be a grandmother, ventured out into the melee in Hackney last night as violence swept through the capital.
She bravely stands in the middle of group of hooded youths who are vandalising a building and launches into an impassioned speech urging them to stop the violence.

Brave: The West Indian woman stands in front of a vandalised building as she waves her walking stick at a gang of hooded youths during the unrest in Hackney last night

The incensed woman, who walks with a limp, calls on the yobs to cease their relentless looting - showing her exasperation with some heated and colourful language.
Waving her walking stick at the youngsters, she tells them to 'low' - street slang for stop -  burning buildings and defends 'hardworking' business owners.
 
'This is a f****** reality,' the elderly woman says while standing in front of a graffiti covered wall.
'Low up the f****** burning the property. Low up burning people's shop that they work hard to start their business. You understand?
'The shop up there, she's working hard to make her business work and you lot want to burn it up, for what? So that you can say you're 'warring' and you're bad man.

Violence: A hooded youth walks past a burning vehicle in Hackney yesterday afternoon as troubled flared and sparked further clashes across London

Chaos: Youths grab what they can as they loot a Carhartt store in Hackney, and right, a masked rioter is seen in front of a burning car

Warzone: Rioters make barricades in Hackney yesterday afternoon as trouble flares in daylight for the first time since rioting and looting began in Tottenham on Saturday evening

'This is about a f****** man who got shot in Tottenham, this 'aint about having fun and rioting and busting up the place.
'Get it real black people, get real. Do it for a cause. If we're fighting for a cause let's fight for a f****** cause.
'You lot p*** me the f*** off. I'm ashamed to be a Hackney person because we're not all gathering together and fighting for a cause we're running down Foot Locker and TV shops. Dirty thief run off.'
The incredible footage has become an internet hit with hundreds of thousands of people praising the woman's brave actions.
She has become a figurehead for the ongoing backlash against the rioters who have caused carnage across the capital since unrest began on Saturday evening in Tottenham.