Violent protests in UK continue for 7th day over deaths of 3 girls

Protests continued across the UK on Monday after days of rioting in response to the stabbing deaths of three young girls last week plunged the country into its worst unrest in years.

In a video shared on social media, a crowd of rioters carrying Palestinian flags can be seen charging into two hatchbacks in Birmingham, as a man shouts into a megaphone and gives instructions to the crowd. At one point, one of the cars is seen driving through the crowd and then across the grass to another section of road and fleeing the scene.

In another video, another group of anti-Israel protesters march outside a British pub as a man stands outside. The man is not heard saying anything in the video, but at one point he raises his arms to the side, appearing to taunt the protesters.

One of the protesters then confronts the man and both men raise their fists before the protester punches him. The man falls to the ground, supported only by a picnic table, when another protester approaches him and kicks him in the torso. Several others join in, some holding Palestinian flags, as they kick and hit the man.

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In Plymouth, a crowd was seen gathering in front of a line of police in riot gear. As night fell, fireworks were set off and violent clashes broke out.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that a “standing army” of specialist police officers would be put in place to deal with the riots and the justice system would be strengthened to deal with hundreds of arrests after violent unrest rocked cities across the country over the past week.

“Whatever the apparent motivation, this is not protest, this is pure violence, and we will not tolerate attacks on mosques or our Muslim communities,” Starmer said on Monday. “The law will be applied with all due rigour against anyone found to have taken part.”

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Riots and protests involving hundreds of people have created chaos in cities across the country.

Dozens of police officers have been hospitalized in the past six days with injuries after being hit with bricks, bottles, chairs and large wooden poles.

On Sunday, angry mobs attacked two hotels used to house asylum seekers, smashing windows and setting fires before police dispersed the crowd and residents were evacuated.

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Starmer blamed the violence on misinformation spread on social media that sparked outrage following a stabbing that left three girls dead and others injured at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in the town of Southport.

The false social media posts claimed the alleged attacker was a radical Islamist who had recently arrived in Britain, Reuters reported. However, police identified the attacker as Axel Rudakubana, 17, who was born in Wales to Rwandan parents, and said authorities did not consider the incident to be terrorism-related.

In the UK, suspects under the age of 18 are not usually identified, but the judge ordered that the suspect be identified to stop the spread of false information. The teenager was charged with three counts of murder and ten counts of attempted murder.

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A spokesperson for Starmer said on Monday that social media companies had not done enough to prevent the spread of misinformation and that some of this false and misleading information came from foreign states.

Bradford Betz and Stephen Sorace of Fox News Digital and The Associated Press contributed to this report.