Police warn rioters 'don't do it' ahead of protests

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Chief Constable BJ Harrington has warned the public against rioting as they "will get caught", as over 100 events this evening could escalate into violence.    Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00There's over a hundred events across the country that we're aware of and as we've seen over the

00:04last week or so some of those will be peaceful, will be lawful and you've only got to look at

00:08places like Southport where over the last week we've seen tremendous community groups coming

00:12together you know to commemorate you know and be empathetic with those with the community affected

00:18and the family of those the children who were tragically killed. Equally some of those events

00:23have turned into violence and we are fearful of that however we are well prepared in every single

00:29police area across the country there are additional officers brought from neighbourhood policing

00:35specially trained and available to deploy and deal with those people who commit violence

00:39and you'll have seen on your television screens both officers going forward bravely to protect

00:44their communities and make arrests and importantly even when they can't do that at the time you'll

00:49have seen us kicking doors in making sure we're arresting people after the fact we're gathering

00:53the evidence on social media on CCTV on body worn video from drone footage and of course

00:59importantly from communities who are coming forward and say they will not tolerate it and

01:03we're going to wake people up in the morning arrest them and put them in front of the courts.

01:06The simple message is don't do it you know you will be caught you know you'll have seen across

01:11the country over the last week people who have come out and committed some of the most horrible

01:15and horrific violence not only against police officers which is unacceptable but against

01:20communities against the things cars libraries and and we're saying don't do it because you will

01:26get caught already we've arrested over 400 people we've put over 120 people in front of the courts

01:32the courts the Crown Prosecution Service in fact communities are standing together and

01:37making sure these people are intent on just damaging and destroying local communities

01:42get their comeuppance and they will.

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