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muriel_volestrangler

(102,473 posts)
Fri Aug 2, 2024, 05:52 PM Aug 2024

Police office attacked and car on fire in Sunderland far-right unrest stirred up by Russian fake news



A police office has been attacked and the property next to it set alight as protesters clashed with police in Sunderland during a demonstration linked to the Southport knife attack.

It follows beer cans and stones being thrown at police in riot gear outside a mosque in the city, and other clashes between rioters and the force.
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Members of the crowd chanted in support of far-right activist Tommy Robinson, while others shouted Islamophobic slurs.
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The unrest follows riots in Hartlepool on Wednesday night, which Cleveland Police said was linked to protests over the fatal knife attack on a group of children in Southport, Merseyside, on Monday.

.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl0lkrxgvxo



A Russian website (that doesn't admit it's Russian) was central to spreading the lies about the murderer - see https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3281717 and https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/31/how-false-online-claims-about-southport-knife-attack-spread-so-rapidly . I don't know if the average far-right thug is happy to be directed by Russian trolls, indifferent, or would be pissed off if they were intelligent enough to find out.
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Police office attacked and car on fire in Sunderland far-right unrest stirred up by Russian fake news (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2024 OP
Meanwhile, in Liverpool ... Emrys Aug 2024 #1
If the far right continues on it's current trajectory... T_i_B Aug 2024 #2

Emrys

(7,941 posts)
1. Meanwhile, in Liverpool ...
Fri Aug 2, 2024, 07:22 PM
Aug 2024

One of the locations where opportunist fascists have been trying to gather and stir up trouble:























(I'll post whatever elements of these tweets I can if anyone asks me to.)

T_i_B

(14,800 posts)
2. If the far right continues on it's current trajectory...
Sat Aug 3, 2024, 03:36 AM
Aug 2024

...they will just find themselves getting proscribed as terrorists.

Although that could be the best thing that could happen for British Conservatism as it could force the right to move away from endless race-baiting and "culture wars" codswallop.

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