Police anticipating busy day as they monitor reports of at least 30 gatherings and threats against immigration law specialistsSix people have been charged with violent disorder in Plymouth on Monday night which saw police officers injured and two members of the public taken to hospital, PA Media reports.Devon and Cornwall police said the four adults and two 17-year-old boys have been charged under section 2 of the Public Order Act 1986. They are due to appear at Plymouth magistrates court today.You know what, you can be concerned about immigration, you can be concerned about damage to a place of worship, you can become rightly concerned about all those things. It does not give you licence and freedom to go out there, arm yourself, carry a knife, abuse people in the street, assault people in the street, hurl things at police officers, burn people’s cars, damage people’s homes. You have no right to do that.We need the prime minister and the government to succeed in tackling this issue. There’s concerns out there about the fact that it took a week to get a cobra meeting together, so that agencies could start coordinating and ensuring we had the right people in the right place.We’ve seen question marks about two-tier policing. Whatever Keir Starmer wants to say about who is responsible and their motivations, those question are for him, you know? There was comment that he didn’t comment on, he didn’t make any mention, of people being armed in Birmingham. Well, that’s questions for him. Continue reading…
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Author : Martin Belam
Publish date : 2024-08-07 08:04:01
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UK riots live: police braced for more far-right unrest amid reports of 30 planned gatherings
