Forces from Surrey to South Yorkshire are understood to have ordered specialist officers to be ready to deploy at short notice
Caption: Riot police hold back protesters near a burning police vehicle after disorder broke out in Southport on Tuesday Hundreds of extra riot police have been put on standby amid fears that dozens of far-right rallies planned for this weekend in the wake of theForces from Surrey to South Yorkshire are understood to have ordered officers trained in public order techniques to be ready to deploy at short notice in the event of disturbances within their own areas or to provide rapid support to...
“The police allowed people to gather, everything kicked off and it frightened the communities who in no way agree with the rioters.” The Muslim Council of Britain’s secretary general Zara Mohammed described the hostility as unprecedented in recent times, adding she had not seen anything like it since Tommy Robinson was leading the EDL at its height around a decade ago.: “It’s been really, really shocking for the community to see something that apparently started with fake news now escalating into a national attack of mosques over the weekend.
Concerns that violent unrest and Islamophobic attacks could occur this weekend have spread from England into Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.minority communities in the country were more vulnerable because of its “troubled past, the normalisation of sectarianism and the lack of protections in place”.
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