Hunt down and lock up Oxford Street chaos instigators, Suella Braverman demands
Police must "hunt down and lock up" those behind the disorder on Oxford Street and central London, home secretary Suella Braverman has demanded.Young people scuffled with officers after calls on TikTok for a "mass shoplift".
A heavy police presence arrived at the shopping hotspot on Wednesday, with some officers mounted on horseback. They arrested nine people and gave out 34 dispersal orders - effectively kicking people out of the area - while footage showed some scuffles with officers as they searched young people. Later, dozens of young people were making their way on Shaftesbury Avenue and a McDonald's and a gift shop were attacked, while a store in Soho had to fight off would-be shoplifters.Some fights broke out among the young people.
Two people were arrested in Essex for conspiracy to commit robbery in relation to social media posts.included one for going equipped to steal, one for assaulting a police officer and breaches of dispersal orders.We cannot allow the kind of lawlessness seen in some American cities to come to the streets of the UK.
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