Members of the far-right organised this in real-time on various channels online for journalists to watch, made a series of speeches at the event denouncing their 'Marxist' enemies, then occupied the lines opposing the police, yet somehow, the violence is being treated a something else entirely.
Huw C. Davies
The total line up is at least Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Nick Tenconi, Paul Golding, and Luke Jahn.
This was not community anger at policing. It was an organized, national far-right riot.
Daniel Devine
This, just down the road from me, is some of the worst I've seen.
Portrayed as a community movement, it is in fact a national push, with Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, and Nick Tenconi here. The Nazi White Vanguard and other far right groups have also travelled.
Daniel Devine
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