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00:00We got to this point partly because of misinformation widely spread across social media.
00:07Yes, social media again.
00:10We know that some members of the crowd last night could be heard shouting Islamophobic
00:14slurs.
00:15This has been true in other riots since that deadly incident where these three little girls
00:20were murdered earlier in the week.
00:23So some members of the crowd could be heard shouting Islamophobic slurs, chanting support
00:27of far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who is usually known by his alias Tommy Robinson.
00:35Mr. Yaxley-Lennon's ex-account has promoted false claims that the alleged South Port attacker
00:41had been an asylum seeker who recently arrived in the U.K. by boat, so in other words from
00:48French shores.
00:49Now, the clamping down of the authorities is very clear.
00:54Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said that criminals attacking the police would, quote,
00:58pay the price for their violence and thuggery.
01:01The Northeast mayor, Kim McGuinness, said she was appalled by the scenes in Sunderland.
01:07And we know that the director of public prosecution, Stephen Parkinson, has in fact said that extra
01:13prosecutors have been called into work this weekend to deal with the disorder.
01:19Why?
01:20Because towns and cities, including London, Hartlepool, Manchester and Autoshot, have
01:24already seen protests into violence following the South Port knife attack.
01:28We know that over 100 protesters that fired also projectiles and injured some police in
01:34Whitehall near Parliament and outside the official residence of the prime minister,
01:38Downing Street, were arrested earlier in the week.
01:41And British media are reporting that at least 30 demonstrations are being planned by far-right
01:48activists in towns and cities across the U.K. over this weekend, including a new protest
01:55where that fatal incident happened earlier in the week in South Port.
02:00So clearly concern from the authorities and an appeal to really calm down, and many communities
02:07saying that these people are being bused into their communities.
02:10They do not represent many of those communities as saying actually what is going on in those
02:16communities.
02:17And certainly in South Port, South Port is asking anybody who is thinking of doing that
02:22to allow them to grieve.
02:25It's only a few days after this tragic, fatal incident earlier in the week.
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