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Inside Belfast’s Sandy Row riot

by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Societally Destructive Immigration Policy"
Syrian store – burned out

When the sun set last night, youths rioted in Sandy Row, a working-class Loyalist community tucked behind Belfast’s city centre. Turning the corner from the main road, bustling shops and bars suddenly morphed into an eerie scene of armoured Land Rovers and police cordons, smouldering bins and broken paving stones, as firefighters made safe the burned-out husk of a Sudanese cafe and barber, an early target for the night’s disorder. Police in full riot gear, some toting baton guns, formed shield walls or sheltered behind their armoured vehicles from occasional rocks and bottles, as Union Flags and red, white and blue bunting hung limply overhead.

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