More than 1,000 people have been arrested and roughly half of that number charged, police said.
By Jennifer Hassan, The Washington PostAn anti-immigration protester, center, speaks to police officers in North Finchley, London, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. Anti-immigration groups targeted dozens of locations throughout the country following a week of rioting and disorder fueled by misinformation over a stabbing attack against young girls.
This swift justice has been a test for Keir Starmer, barely a month into his job as prime minister after a landslide election victory. Starmer was formerly chief prosecutor for England and Wales, granting him valuable experience in the mechanics of criminal prosecution. Police officers were assaulted as they clashed with rioters, shops were looted and mosques were attacked with bricks. Cars were torched. Anti-immigration demonstrators stormed a hotel housing asylum seekers, throwing bricks and chairs at the building.
Also during that period, Starmer brought charges for those involved in London’s 2011 riots, sparked by the police killing of a Black man named Mark Duggan. Almost 4,000 people had been arrested within about a month of Duggan’s death that August, according to a government report. “So-called keyboard warriors like you must learn to take responsibility for your disgusting and inflammatory language,” Judge Steven Everett told Chester Crown Court as he issued the sentence.
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