How Asian men in a BMW were attacked in violence in Hull.

Of all the violence that has taken place in cities across the UK this weekend, one of the most shocking occurred in Hull, when an angry mob of white men surrounded and attacked a car with Asian men inside.

Videos of the incident shared on social media show the mob rushing towards a silver BMW, forcing open its doors and attacking those inside.

In the videos, people can be heard shouting racial slurs and saying “Get them.”

BBC Verify has analysed social media footage of the incident – and what happened in Hull before it.

The attack on the BMW happened northwest of Hull city centre on Saturday afternoon.

Analysis of videos posted on social media by BBC Verify suggests the vehicle and its occupants were attacked at around 4.45pm.

In one video, large plumes of black smoke can be seen rising into the sky. The person filming is walking down Hall Street and toward a parking lot where a car is on fire and a horn is blaring.

Then the BMW reverses around the corner of Milky Street, as it tries to escape a large crowd.

The car is stuck on the sidewalk and is quickly swarmed by angry men, several of whom are masked and using what appear to be screwdrivers to smash the car’s taillights and attempt to pry open the car’s doors and grab the people inside.

Men can be seen throwing bricks and a shopping trolley at the car. Another man can be seen performing a Nazi salute.

In the background of one of the videos, someone can be heard yelling, “Get these guys, get this (expletive), crush this shit.”

A man wearing a St. George’s flag T-shirt can be seen trying to break the windows of the BMW. Using facial recognition software and social media profiles, we identified him as John Honey.

He appears in other videos showing looting later in the day in the city center. He has since been charged He was arrested for violent disorder, three counts of theft, two counts of burglary and criminal damage, and is in custody. Humberside Police said on Monday afternoon that a total of 28 other people had been arrested.

Around the car, a man with a large backpack on his back opens the driver’s door and appears to hit the driver several times.

Ten seconds after the car got stuck, a passenger managed to get out of the car after losing a shoe. He was then chased by a masked man armed with a metal bar.

The video then pans to the right and riot police can be seen approaching. This appears to trigger the crowd to disperse.

The driver and a passenger who fled the scene were later seen unharmed about 20 metres from the scene of the attack.

We don’t know who they are and we don’t know if there were other people travelling with them in the car.

The camera then pans across the chaotic scene to show other cars on fire with thick black smoke filling the air.

Another man identified by BBC Verify as being present at the incident – through facial recognition tools and confirmed by comparison with social media profiles – is Connor Londesborough. He can be seen in the footage standing next to the car and talking to some of the attackers, but not taking part in the attack.

Days before the protest, he had shared a message from the National Defense League — an anti-immigrant online group — that read “ready for peace, ready for war.”

He has It was previously reported that Londesborough had a conviction for kidnapping, arson and theft.

He told the BBC he had been at the protest in Victoria Square earlier and was only there during the car attack to stop others from attacking the car.

A few hours earlier, crowds had gathered in Hull city centre.

Posters on the Internet with the words “enough is enough”, calling on people to gather in Victoria Square at noon, have been shared.

A Facebook post suggests that it was originally organised by the ‘Hull Patriotic Protestors’, a private group which lists a number of concerns including ‘the influx of illegal invaders into our city’ and ‘the economic decline and financial neglect of our city’.

Another Facebook ad asks participants to “try to be as sober as possible” and that “it’s important to remember that it’s not about the color of a person’s skin.”

The event will begin with a vigil in memory of the three girls murdered in Southport.

Footage from the protest shows a man giving an anti-immigrant speech and a counter-protest nearby. The two groups are separated by a line of police.

At around 1.15pm, a BBC colleague saw members of the Victoria Square crowd gather a five-minute walk outside the Royal Hotel, which is believed to be housing asylum seekers. He said he saw several people throwing projectiles at the hotel, damaging windows.

In the videos we analyzed, a large group of people can be seen behind metal barriers in front of the hotel, chanting “send them home” and “get them out” in front of riot police. Bottles, flares and bricks were thrown at the officers.

Later, at 3:33 p.m., far-right activist Tommy Robinson, posted on X that the hotel was housing “uncontrolled migrants at taxpayers’ expense.”

In the hours following the encirclement and attack on the BMW, crowds formed again in the city centre and looting began.

People gathered on Jameson Street. The first social media videos we identified of looting date from 18:38 and show the O2 phone shop being ransacked.

We have also seen footage of looting in the Shoezone, where a large pile of shoes was taken out and set alight, at Greggs, the bakery and cosmetics retailer Lush.

Additional reporting by Richard Irvine-Brown and Paul Brown