Hero: 'The point of protests is lost in the riots"

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"The point of the protest is lost". Belfast knife attack hero Maitiu Mág Tighearnán has condemned the violent riots taking place in the city. He said the core message disappears once things turn violent. There have been two days of riots since a man was attacked by a knifeman. Report by Johals. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I think the violence initially comes from a protest, which everybody's entitled to do,

00:03everybody's entitled to have a protest, everybody's entitled to their opinion.

00:06I think once it turns violent, the point of the protest is lost, so you're losing the reason

00:12for the protest because no one's no longer focusing on those protests, they're focusing

00:16on the violence. And it's not nice to see, you know, no one wants to see their city being burnt

00:21down or cars being burnt or people losing homes or valuables.

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