After two nights of rioting in London on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th August, 2011 the first sign of significant spread of unrest to another English city occurred on the afternoon of Monday 8th as crowds gathered at several locations in Birmingham City Centre. These groups confronted police and began looting shops. As news of the incidents spread on social media the crowds grew in size, and confrontations and looting continued into the evening and early hours of Tuesday morning. The same evening in the district of Handsworth, several miles to the northwest of the city centre, a crowd formed, created makeshift barricades and began attacking mobile police units. Handsworth West Police Station was attacked by a crowd, broken into and then badly damaged by fire.
The following afternoon in Birmingham City Centre, crowds once again began to gather though the police response was better organised and more robust. Despite this, confrontations with police and looting continued throughout the evening. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, three men who were reportedly attempting to protect local shops from looters, were killed when a vehicle ran them down in Winson Green. Later that day, the father of one of the men killed, Tariq Jahan, spoke out to media outlets about the riots and appealed for them to end. Following a candle-light vigil in Winson Green on the evening of Wednesday 10th August, no more major disorder events occurred in Birmingham.
The full triangulated account for Birmingham can be found here.