It became so intense during the past week that both politicians cancelled foreign trips to position themselves at the centre of the riots issue.
In 1967, when neighboring Newark was gripped by race riots, Mr. Dunn issued a "shoot to kill" order to police.
New charges of conspiracy, unlawful assembly and rioting were issued on 25 February.
The parents of two teenagers, whose accidental deaths while hiding from the police touched off the rioting, also issued a statement appealing for calm.
Last Thursday, the Pussy Riot collective issued an open letter to The Guardian emphasizing that Nadya and Masha, despite often being billed as "Pussy Riot" in the media, were no longer members of the group.
David Cameron is on a collision course with the police after the government used an emergency Commons debate on the English riots to issue a point-by-point dissection of the police's "insufficient" tactics during the week.
Kwementyaye's mother feared a riot and the family issued a public appeal for calm.
Ahead of the verdict this week more than 200,000 security forces were deployed across northern India, a tenth of them in Ayodhya, where police were issued with riot gear and helicopters whirled overhead.
But the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, which said it had sent monitors to all the riot sites on Thursday, issued a report with the names of five victims -- four in Gaza and the one in Ramallah.
After the riots, the Kurdish Democratic Party in Iraq issued a statement suggesting that Damascus do something to end the problems in "Syrian Kurdistan" peacefully.
