A police car was set alight after a large group of people gathered in the Murray Street area of Hartlepool on Wednesday evening. Officers were attacked with missiles, glass bottles and eggs, Cleveland police said.
In Manchester, demonstrators turned out in large numbers outside the Holiday Inn hotel on Oldham Road at about 6pm on Wednesday, the Manchester Evening News reported.
About 40 people, which the paper reported included children and men wearing balaclavas, gathered outside the Oldham Road premises in what the paper said “appeared to be a stand against asylum seekers currently being housed in the hotel”.
In London, a large protest was staged under the title of Enough is Enough, with arrests made after demonstrators clashed with officers in Whitehall on Wednesday.
The Metropolitan police said: “Over 100 people have been arrested for offences including violent disorder, assault on an emergency worker, and breach of protest conditions. Some officers suffered minor injuries.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/01/southport-uk-stabbings-arrests-london-protestsTo recap: the youth who appeared in court this morning was born in the UK. One of the murder victims came from an immigrant family - her father from Portugal, her mother from Colombia, I think. The first Islamophobic riot targeted a mosque, after fake Russian news made up an Arabic name and claimed he got to Britain only a year ago. That was already known to be a lie by the time of that riot, but the news was full, for a day, of it being a lie before these hooligans (they chant the same "Eng-ger-land" chant that yobbish England football fans do) decided to riot in towns and cities unconnected with the murders, thinking that saying "Enough is Enough" somehow gives them an excuse.
The Guardian notes 'the angry scenes also included loud chants of “we want our country back” and “Oh Tommy Robinson”, referring to the rightwing activist.' Tommy Robinson is a thug and fraudster (he's spent time in prison for that), who has just fled the UK because, after he lost a libel case (falsely accusing an immigrant teenager), he continued to spread the lies about the teenager, making a film about it, and thus he is in contempt of the court order that told him to stop.
These are idiots who, in a spell of hot weather, think the best leisure activity is rioting. They are racist, and won't listen to the truth or reason.
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