Rioters to face 'full force of the law,' UK's Starmer says

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday (Aug 6) that sufficient police would be on the streets to handle anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots in the coming days as he sought to reassure communities braced for more violent protests.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Over 400 people now have been arrested, 100 have been charged, some in relation to online

00:06activity and a number of them are already in court and I'm now expecting substantive

00:12sentencing before the end of this week. That should send a very powerful message to anybody

00:17involved either directly or online that you are likely to be dealt with within a week

00:24and that nobody, but nobody, should be involving themselves in this disorder.

00:29So within a week the criminal justice system really has shown the robust and swift response

00:35that I think is very important to sending a message in circumstances like this.

00:39We're doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is needed it's in

00:45place, where support is needed for particular places that that is in space. Obviously it's

00:51a difficult situation with disorder going on in a number of different places at the

00:56same time but that is precisely why I held my second COBRA meeting today to coordinate

01:02the response and to get the assurance that I want and need that we do have adequate police

01:09in place, that we are able to cope with this disorder. But the message has to go to those

01:14who are involving themselves in this disorder which is you're wrong, you shouldn't be doing

01:19it and you will fall in the full force of the law as I hope we've been able to demonstrate

01:23with these swift prosecutions. Our first duty has to be to our communities to keep

01:28them safe. That is my sole focus. The police are doing a difficult job in difficult circumstances

01:35and I think that everybody should be given their full support to ensure that we can make

01:41sure that our streets are safe and our communities feel safe and secure.

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