Car set alight after clashes between police and far-right rioters in Middlesbrough

Car set alight after clashes between police and protesters in Middlesbrough

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00:00I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly or those whipping

00:07up this action online and then running away themselves.

00:12This is not protest, it is organised violent thuggery and it has no place on our streets

00:22or online.

00:24Right now there are attacks happening on a hotel in Rotherham, marauding gangs intent

00:31on law-breaking or worse, windows smashed, fire set ablaze, residents and staff in absolute

00:40fear.

00:42There is no justification, none, for taking this action and all right-minded people should

00:50be condemning this sort of violence.

00:55People in this country have a right to be safe and yet we've seen Muslim communities

01:03targeted, attacks on mosques, other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the

01:11street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric.

01:18So no, I won't shy away from calling it what it is, far-right thuggery.