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Multiple right-wing demonstrations turned violent across the UK on Saturday night, as anti-immigration protesters clashed with police following the murder of three children by a teenager of African descent earlier this week.
Violence broke out at more than 30 protests held in cities including Liverpool, Nottingham, Leeds, Belfast, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool and Hull. The demonstrations came almost a week after riots in the town of Southport following the fatal stabbing of three children and wounding of ten others, allegedly by 17-year old Axel Rudakubana, who was born in Britain to Rwandan parents.
The Southport riots spread across England, with more than 100 people arrested in London on Wednesday and a police station set on fire in Sunderland on Friday.
Protesters and rioters on Saturday shouted anti-immigration and anti-Islam slogans, despite the fact that Rudakubana is not a Muslim. However, tensions between Muslim immigrants and native British have simmered in northern England since it was revealed that police covered up the existence of multiple Muslim ‘grooming gangs’ in the region over the last two decades.
In Leeds, where seven Muslim men were given prison sentences in April for raping eight British girls, demonstrators chanted “pedo Muslims off our streets” and “save our kids.” Police officers kept the protesters separate from a group of pro-immigrant left-wingers who turned up to stage a counter-demonstration.
In Manchester, fighting broke out between left- and right-wing protesters, with the right-wing side hurling fences and other debris at police officers attempting to separate the groups.
🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨
— ThePublica (@ThePublicaNow) August 3, 2024
Protestors have gathered in Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens following the murder of three young girls in a knife attack in Southport this week.
Demonstrators are clashing with police as they call for an end to mass migration.
📷: @JackHadders pic.twitter.com/DxJ6fVapKB
🚨HAPPENING NOW IN MANCHESTER🚨
— ThePublica (@ThePublicaNow) August 3, 2024
A demonstrator has just been chased down by police and arrested on Mosley Street.
The protest is just one of many happening across the United Kingdom today, with Brits calling for an end to mass migration.
📷: @JackHadders https://t.co/xLSbJB883r pic.twitter.com/BSr82kc5Tf
Police and protesters also clashed in Liverpool, with two officers hospitalized after being pelted with bricks and other projectiles.
🇬🇧 Chaotic scenes in Liverpool today. The windshield of a police van was smashed, and officers were hit with bricks after protesters at the Pier Head, with Union Jack flags and chanting "stop the boats," were confronted by "anti-fascist" demonstrators pic.twitter.com/gADr8c9dgG
— DD Geopolitics (@DD_Geopolitics) August 3, 2024
Police officers in Bristol were unable to prevent sporadic clashes between left- and right-wing groups.
A mob of visibly heavily armed Muslims in Stoke roam the streets with police making no efforts to stop them.
— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) August 3, 2024
This is exactly why patriots are protesting as we have all had enough.
End two-tier policing. pic.twitter.com/GdQmW2Gb2f
In one video, a police officer can be seen telling men to surrender their weapons at a nearby mosque, but no arrests have been reported. Footage from another unverified location showed another large group of Muslim men chanting “Allahu Akbar” as riot police watched from a distance
This time it's the far left attacking people protesting following the brutal murder of 3 little girls in Southport.
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) August 3, 2024
This time in Bristol just now.
Listen as the attackers accuse those filming of being "fascist".
This is the rhetoric circulated by keir starmer and the media… pic.twitter.com/wddtnojsGR
In a speech to the nation on Thursday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer focused almost entirely on the reaction to Monday’s stabbings, rather than the stabbings themselves. Starmer condemned the “far-right hatred” fueling the riots, and vowed to give police additional powers to tackle similar unrest in future.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned on Saturday that additional prosecutors and prison spaces had been prepared, and that anyone involved in “criminal violence and disorder” would “pay the price.”
Video footage from the city of Stoke purportedly showed gangs of Muslim men marching with machetes and other weapons.
Elon Musk Speculates Civil War ‘Inevitable’ as Violence Sweeps UK
Angry anti-migrant protests have swept across the UK, with the latest unrest set off by the horrific stabbing of three children in Southport by the 17-year-old son of Rwandan immigrants. Manchester, Liverpool, and Birmingham have witnessed violent demonstrations, with mosques attacked, police premises ransacked, and cars and buildings set ablaze.
US billionaire Elon Musk has speculated that the UK is heading towards civil war. Musk weighed in on the wave of violence sweeping across the country amid uncontrolled migration and soaring crime, posting on X a succinct post that read, “Civil war is inevitable.”
The Tesla CEO and owner of X made the comment under one of many videos showing scenes of unrest gripping towns and cities in Britain during the past days. The latest wave of interethnic violence was triggered by a recent tragedy in the town of Southport, where a 17-year-old teen of Rwandan origin stabbed three girls to death on July 29.
Police arrested dozens of people on Saturday, as projectiles and fireworks were set off, and storefronts set on fire. Footage posted on social media shows crowds chanting anti-immigrant slogans such as “stop the boats” in Liverpool, in a reference to the dinghies used by asylum seekers to cross the English Channel to the UK.
Former Home Secretary Priti Patel denounced Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour Party for complacency amid the riots, writing on X that Parliament ought to be recalled from summer break.
The UK’s newly minted Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has inherited the migrant crisis from his predecessor, faces an uphill battle to tackle illegal migration. The number of people crossing the English Channel is currently estimated to be more than 10,000 this year alone. Previous measures resorted to by the UK government have failed to stanch the tide of illegals.
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