Street violence intensifies in Rotherham as protesters clash with police

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Violence intensified on the streets of Rotherham on Sunday (August 4) in the latest wave of unrest after three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children's dance class in Southport in northwest England last week.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Violence intensified on the streets of Rotherham on Sunday in the latest wave of unrest after

00:08three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children's dance class in Southport in

00:13north-west England last week.

00:16Anti-immigration protesters hurled objects at police and broke several windows at a hotel

00:22that has been used to house asylum seekers.

00:25Some protesters carried Union Jacks and England flags and chanted profanity at police officers

00:30and towards the hotel.

00:32The murders in Southport were seized on by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups as misinformation

00:39spread that the suspected attacker was an immigrant and a radical Islamist.

00:49Police said the suspect was born in Britain and media reports have said his family is

00:54Christian.

00:55The weekend's protests followed several days of disorder in towns and cities across Britain,

01:01including Liverpool, Bristol and Manchester.

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