🇬🇧 Complete chaos in the UK: Sunderland police station set on fire amid protests over Southport stabbing https://t.co/f1eUc5DEzn pic.twitter.com/CrxEd0EVnq
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 2, 2024
Sunderland this evening…..
The building on fire looks to be the police station. This is part of the ongoing protests over the stabbings in Southport.pic.twitter.com/8Ll2lMfTSb
— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) August 2, 2024
Looks like Starmers speech has succeeded only in inflaming community tensions. He needs to walk this back.
His robotic speech completely lacking in empathy and understanding has made everything worse.
More unrest in Sunderland now. pic.twitter.com/Mk7a3ITxen
— Captain Benjamin 🐺 (@BenjaminDeRebel) August 2, 2024
Previously: UK: Starmer Announces New “Violent Disorder” Unit, Mass Censorship, Destruction of Anti-Stabbing Movement
I wonder about “injured cops.”
This is sort of like the first time I watched soccer, and saw the players faking injuries.
These cops are heavily armored, so unless these anti-stabbing protesters are using puncturing melee weapons, I don’t really see how cops could be “hospitalized” by protesters.
If the protesters were ripping the cops’ helmets off and kicking them in the head, there would be videos of that.
Anyway – Starmer is going to be one of these “brief” PMs because of this crisis. Going out there and announcing he was forming a pro-child-stabbing force to stop the anti-child-stabbing movement was heinous and dumb.
Eight people have been arrested in Sunderland for offences including violent disorder and burglary after another night of rioting and disorder in parts of the UK.
Three police officers were taken to hospital after being injured, Northumbria police added.
At least one building was reportedly set on fire, and a car was also overturned and set alight as police struggled to control a crowd of several hundred protesters.
Some of the protesters wore balaclavas and some were draped in the England flag, with police officers being hit with beer cans and stones in the city centre and a nearby mosque on St Mark’s Road.
The balaclavas are out, boy.
This war is well under way.
Posting on social media about the building on fire, Nick Lowles, from the organisation Hope Not Hate, said: “A far right and racist protest has culminated in this. Shame on all those who continue to excuse these protests.”
It was initially reported that a police building had been set on fire but later reports suggested an adjacent building was instead set alight.
An overturned car was set on fire and rioters set off fire extinguishers against officers.
These Brits are going full-Irish.
I have to say: I am not unimpressed.
It’s Sunderland tonight, it’s the entire country tomorrow.
There’s only so far you can push the British people until they fight back 💥💥 pic.twitter.com/fJWKm0ClJ3— Ashlea Simon (@AshleaSimonBF) August 2, 2024
I think the soundtrack of the anti-stabbing revolution should be The Smiths’ “Panic.”
I never get my way with these soundtrack picks.
But I’m sure someone will at least start setting the riot footage to that song.
And that’s really what we care about: the videos we get of violence.