Scenes being livestreamed on YouTube showed young people throwing fireworks and other missiles at a line of police officers with riot shields.
The Ford Focus car of Jane Palmer set alight in Highmead Road, Ely, Cardiff, during 'large-scale disorder' after a serious crash in Snowden Road
Alun Michael, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “My understanding is that there was a road traffic accident involving two teenagers on an off-road bike or scooter and sadly they died.“And that appears to have sparked, for reasons that aren’t clear, the disorder that you’ve referred to in which something like a dozen officers were injured, fortunately none of them life threatening, and the connection between the two is far from clear.
A fire was burning and a helicopter could be heard hovering overhead as rioters threw missiles, including fireworks, at officers.Scenes being livestreamed on YouTube showed young people throwing fireworks and other missiles at a line of police officers with riot shields who were blocking one end of the street.
Shortly before 3am, rioters moved down Highmead Road in Ely, followed by police officers trying to disperse them.Police officers in Howell Road, Cardiff He told the PA news agency a lack of communication from police to the community may have led to the escalation. “The vast majority of people who were stood in that street were stood there because they wanted to know what would happen next. There were a very small number of people actually doing any sort of violence,” he said.“There was definitely a small group doing things but the vast majority of other people were just watching and having that normal camaraderie in the street that you have when something is happening in your street and you have no control over it,” he said.
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