What started off as a brief struggle between two people has threatened to drive a lasting wedge between two communities.
Video of a black customer being manhandled by an Asian shopkeeper was followed by vitriolic threats and loud protests outside his hair and beauty shop in Peckham, southeast London.
The shopkeeper, Sohail Sindho, 45, said he was protecting his shop from a suspected shoplifter and that he was also attacked. He claimed the video footage did not tell the whole story.
