‘We’re scared for our staff - this has to stop’ - video Dailymotion

Businesses across Broadstairs worried that anti-social behaviour seen this weekend will continue.

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00:00this video has now been viewed hundreds of thousands of times online late last

00:08week a large group of young people erupted into violence outside this

00:13Italian restaurant and opposite this pub worker watched for chaos unfold she's

00:18now worried for her own safety but it's been consistent so now I'm worried every

00:24time I like wait outside work either for a lift or for the bus there were a lot

00:29of them we thought they were going to start pushing in this direction as well

00:32because we didn't know what had caused this we thought it was just mindless you

00:36know chaos and that sort of thing so we were quite worried about them pushing

00:42their way in here but even this seafront gift shop wasn't spared vandals smashing

00:49their window it's not just to repair costs the owners are worried about it's how

00:54the amount of violence might damage for town's reputation

00:57all says is the most is the jewel in the crown of the fan it and it's going to

01:03stop people from coming down and it you know it really will do some damage it's

01:09it's it's putting people off already people are saying you know we can't come

01:14back we can't come back and and of course it's the tourists and the students

01:18alike that that help bring big income to our our town across the district beach

01:26fights broke out and one local convenience store reported a spike in

01:31shoplifting having to shut early over the weekend losing thousands of pounds in

01:36trade as a business I can say we we nearly if it's until nine o'clock we keep

01:42open on Saturday we're gonna do more than what we've done so it's nearly four

01:46three thousand bond three four thousand bond business we lost on Saturday as the

01:52new week begun for parish council started assessing the impact on local

01:56businesses we can't accept this what we do about it I don't know but we're going

02:02to get around the table and we're going to do our best we owe it to the

02:06residents of Broadstairs the ratepayers of Broadstairs and most of all we owe it to

02:10the visitors that come here and support our local businesses

02:14Kemp police say they're still investigating but so far they've arrested

02:18five people and charged one teen officers remain highly visible in the

02:24area we want you to take responsibility for the actions of your children do you

02:29know where they are do you know what they're doing and if you've seen them

02:33online what are you doing about it because we need to work together to solve

02:37this I've been speaking to some businesses today and many say they would

02:40like to see more police officers on the streets of Broadstairs what would you say

02:44to that what we have done in response to this is we've uplifted our officers

02:49and we've added additional resources and we will continue to add those

02:52additional resources and bring in whatever we need to do to improve the

02:56situation with teenagers finishing their GCSEs and a levels Broadstairs is

03:01bracing for more disruption but authorities insists they'll crack down

03:05determined to restore the town's picture postcard image Gabriel Morris for

03:10KMTV in Broadstairs