Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As the far-right riots continue to take place across the UK, here’s everything you need to know: What started the riots? The first riot took place in Southport on 30July. It was sparked by the ...
Riots have erupted at anti-immigration protests in towns and cities across Britain in the last week, with attacks by far-right groups on hotels housing asylum seekers and on mosques. On July 29 ...
On 12 August, the UK government announced that despite a de-escalation in the riots over the weekend, government officials remained on "high alert". [ 233 ] On 19 August, the UK government activated Operation Early Dawn , its measures to ease prison overcrowding, as more people were given custodial sentences over their roles in the riots.
Fireworks were let off and a police van was damaged as far-right and anti-racist demonstrators clashed in Plymouth amid a wave of mob violence sweeping the UK.. The protesters clashed as campaign ...
UK police prepared for planned far-right protests and other demonstrations this weekend, after two nights of unrest in several English towns and cities following a mass stabbing that killed three ...
On 18 July 2024, a riot took place in the Harehills area of Leeds, Yorkshire, England. The incident was triggered by a dispute over four children of a Romani family being taken into care by social services and police. [1] The situation escalated as residents, angry and filming the police, gathered, forcing the police to retreat.
Riots have swept Britain over recent days, and more outbreaks of anti-immigrant violence are feared this week, leaving the new UK government scrambling to control the worst disorder in more than a ...
2010: Policing of the student protests included the controversial technique of kettling. At the Whitehall march on 24 November mounted police's use of horses for crowd control was described by others present as a "charge". [3] [4] A journalist at the Parliament Square protest on 9 December characterised the police tactics as "very heavy-handed ...