Police in the northern English city of Rotherham struggled to hold back a group of far-right activists on Sunday, who broke into a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers.
The disturbance is the latest in a series of violent protests by anti-immigration groups in British towns and cities this week after three girls were killed in a knife attack in Southport in northwest England on Monday.
Footage aired on British TV showed officers with shields targeted by a barrage of projectiles outside the Holiday Inn Express hotel in Rotherham, near Sheffield.
A few minutes later, the protesters can be seen storming the building and removing chairs from inside to use as weapons.
A small fire was also visible while windows in the hotel were smashed.
At least one officer was injured in the confrontation.
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Funny how all the videos I watched are of drug addict looking benefits receiving toothless thugs creating chaos. No you do not represent us. Trash and loot more buildings because if the taxes increase you lot have nothing to worry about. Us working people who don’t have time to riot and live pay check to pay check just barely scraping by to support our loved ones are the ones who suffer.
live paycheck to paycheck
You saaaand loik a fackin immigrant nonce innit mate
Judge them by their actions, not by their appearances.
We are seeing the rising tide of fascism which is the inevitable consequence of (neo-)liberalism.
The ruling elite control all of the wealth and power and starve public services of funding, meaning that working class people struggle to get their needs met, especially around health and education. Inflation and rising costs makes everything more expensive, while wages stagnate and workers rights are steadily eroded.
This results in a large population of people, struggling financially, likely with low levels of education, who don’t see how they will have much of a future, looking for someone to blame.
Since the ruling class control the media, they throw the disillusioned victims of the ruling class off the scent, choosing some vulnerable minority group as the scapegoat - jews, immigrants, whatever - to protect themselves against the threat of violence.
Don’t forget that immigrants have been convenient scapegoats since the dawn of civilization.
Of course, I always knew it had to be them. I didn’t know why. I just knew it. Thats how I know this is true.
Yes, one of the oldest tricks in the book is in use. Unfortunately it still seems to work.
People who think England is all tea & crumpets need to see this.
There is quite a lot of far right thugs in the UK, starting with number of Tories.
Don’t forget the hereditary right wing head of state.
Lock them up, throw away the keys. You cannot reason with nazis.
We have some lovely concentration camps in Rwanda, already paid for. I hear it’s totally safe over there. Maybe we could use them?
That is an excellent idea! And after making their time ask them politely if they would prefer to live in Russia since they like fascist regimes.
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Yeah just to be sure to mention this DW is centre-right in Germany kinda like any other mass media here.
Maybe these folks need sending to Rwanda
Maybe I’ll missing something obvious, but the three girls that were hurt in a knife attack, were they immigrants or local girls?
They were not just hurt, they were killed. The children were all locals as far as I know, the assailant was born in England to immigrant parents.
Born in England? So they are native?
Where their parents are born doesn’t matter.
I agree, but you know that mob doesn’t
Let’s see how convictions and incarceration times for these Nazis will compare to the ones handed down to the peaceful and objectively righteous Just Stop Oil protesters.
The police have a lot to answer for here.
During peaceful protests they are happy to storm in and arrest people for simply protesting, whereas people looking to destroy property and attack people are being greeted by half a dozen officers. Here in Bristol protestors were held back by a counter-protest, because there were THREE officers at the scene.
Counter this with the riots that took place here after the police stormed a peaceful protest, and the police worked tirelessly to find anyone and everyone involved - in some cases rightly so. If the same effort isn’t placed here then something is fundamentally wrong.
