Over the last week, many UK cities witnessed large violent protests, leading to the arrest of over 400 people and causing injury to scores of policemen.
On Monday, police in Plymouth were attacked as they tried to keep right-wing rioters at bay. In Belfast, protestors threw petrol bombs at officers. Unrest and chaos also erupted in the east of Birmingham.
Rioters damaged cars and homes around the week as police tried to quell the agitations. Belfast Police said they were probing an assault on a man in his 50s as a racially motivated crime after witnesses saw rioters stamping on his head.
Onlookers tried to protect him from the attackers but to no avail. Later the man was rushed to a hospital in serious condition. Police Service of Northern Ireland in a statement said, ‘In a second night of rioting and disorder, mainly in the areas of Donegall Road and Sandy Row, police officers came under sustained attack over a number of hours’.
Police arrested a 15-year-old boy for instigating riots, who was still in custody. Meanwhile, in connection with last week’s riots, a 28-year-old man was arrested for posting incendiary content online. Jordan Parlour is the first individual to be booked for posting allegedly hateful content in relation to the riots.
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