UK Protest LIVE: UK Sees Worst Riots in 13 years | Protests In UK, Ireland, Dozens Arrested | N18G

UK Protest LIVE: UK Sees Worst Riots in 13 years | Protests In UK, Ireland, Dozens Arrested | UK News | CNBC TV18 More than 90 people were taken into custody on Sunday when far-right protests descended into violent riots in several UK locations, according to the BBC. There was a great deal of unrest in places like Hull, Liverpool, Bristol, Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent, Blackpool, and Belfast. There were also attacks on police officers and shoplifting incidents. Other smaller protests continued to be nonviolent. The violence comes after the heartbreaking death of three young girls at a dance party in Southport, Merseyside, with a Taylor Swift theme, earlier this week. Clashes broke out in Liverpool between about a thousand anti-immigration demonstrators and counter-protesters. Bricks, bottles, and a flare were thrown at the police, escalating the violence and injuring several of them, including one who may have broken his nose and another who may have broken his jaw. With a library set on fire and fireworks directed at police, the violence persisted into the early hours of Sunday. The United Kingdom woke up Sunday morning to city streets covered in debris and smoldering rubbish as a weekend of far-right, anti-immigration demonstrations — stoked by conspiracy theories spread on social media — erupted into violence in seven cities across the nation. Police arrested at least 100 people, and riot police wearing helmets and holding shields came out in force as Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to take action against “extremists.” On Saturday, groups in Leeds waving St. George’s Cross flags, England’s national flag regularly flown by far-right groups, shouted “Muslims off our streets,” pairing it with a slur suggesting they were criminal child abusers. In the city of Hull, rioters threw bottles and smashed a window at a hotel housing asylum-seekers as demonstrators clashed with police. #ukprotest #ukriots #uknews #london #uknewimmigration #keirstarmer #livenews #cnbctv18