Post-Brexit riots flare up in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland has seen nightly outbreaks of street violence in recent days, as unionists and nationalists clashed with each other and police.

On Wednesday (7 April), the escalation in rioting saw a bus set on fire in Belfast.

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UK protesters scuffle with police during rally over new law

Police in the English city of Bristol say they arrested 10 people during a third night of protest against a new policing law.

Hundreds of demonstrators against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill staged a sit-down protest outside a police station in the southwest England city on Friday night, and some scuffled with officers in helmets and shields who tried to break up the gathering.

The Avon and Somerset Police force said Saturday that eggs, bottles and bricks were thrown at officers and a police horse was daubed with paint.

Read more at: UK protesters scuffle with police during rally over new law | PBS NewsHour Weekend

The Netherlands: Covid-19: Dutch police break up anti-lockdown protest

Police in the Netherlands have used water cannon to clear anti-government demonstrators from a park in The Hague.

Some 2,000 demonstrators rallied in the centre of the city to protest against Covid-19 restrictions and other government policies. <

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The Netherlands: Curfew maintained despite riots

A strong police presence in various cities in the Netherlands seemed Tuesday evening to have prevented further unrest, after three nights of violent riots that have rocked the country since the establishment of a curfew on Saturday.

Note EU-Digest:The mob behavior instigated by Trump symphatisers on January 6,in Washington, has unfortunately inspired some of the US's western allies populist derelicts in France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to do the same. Hopefully EU countries will not take this threat for granted and deal with it in a forceful matter.

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The Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew

A third night of rioting has shaken the Netherlands as protesters rampaged through towns and cities around the country after government introduced a night-time curfew.

More than 180 people were arrested on Monday in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, where shops were vandalised and looted and the mayor, Ahmed Aboutaleb, issued an emergency decree giving police broader powers of arrest.

“These people are shameless thieves, I cannot say otherwise,” Aboutaleb said.But trouble also flared in smaller centres around the country such as Den Bosch, Zwolle, Amersfoort, Alkmaar, Hoorn, Gouda – where several cars were set on fire – and Haarlem, where police were attacked with stones.

Read more at: Netherlands shaken by third night of riots over Covid curfew | Netherlands | The Guardian

USA in crises: Trump supporters planning armed protests ahead of Biden inauguration, FBI warns

The FBI has warned of possible armed protests across the US as Trump supporters and far-right groups call for demonstrations before Joe Biden is sworn in as president.

There are reports of armed groups planning to gather at all 50 state capitols and in Washington DC in the run-up to his 20 January inauguration.

Security will be tight for the event after a pro-Trump mob stormed Congress.

Read more at: Trump supporters planning armed protests ahead of Biden inauguration, FBI warns - BBC News

The Netherlands: Dutch police arrest over 20 people after overnight rioting in The Hague

Police in the Netherlands have arrested more than 20 people after the second night of riots in The Hague.

Police say that rioters on rooftops and in the streets caused "serious nuisance" and threw eggs, stones and "heavy fireworks" at officers.

There were no immediate reports of injuries but windows on two police vehicles were severely damaged. A garbage container was also set on fire.

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USA-Dictatorship in the making? 'We're Ready': Trump Threatens to Deploy 75,000 Federal Agents Into US Cities

Escalating his authoritarian threat to send even more federal agents into U.S. cities in what critics have denounced as a cynical and dangerous election year ploy to sow division and chaos, President Donald Trump on Thursday night said his administration is ready to deploy up to 75,000 such officers nationwide in the weeks ahead.

In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that aired Thursday night Trump said he would send 50,000 or 60,000 federal agents into U.S. cities under the auspices of combating violent crime and then later upped the figure to 75,000.

While Trump initially acknowledged that federal agents would "have to be invited in" by local or state authorities, he subsequently added, "At some point we'll have to do something much stronger than being invited in."

"We'll go into all of the cities, any of the cities," Trump said. "We're ready."

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'We're Ready': Trump Threatens to Deploy 75,000 Federal Agents Into US Cities | Common Dreams News

USA - Demonstrations from Coast to coast: : Miami protesters thinning as police enforcing curfew

A peaceful protest that began Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Torch of Friendship turned into a chaotic scene around nightfall.

The order was put into place after there were reports of lootings at Bayside on Biscayne Boulevard. A SWAT team was dispatched there and looters took off before police arrived.

Local 10′s Ian Margol arrived to find glass broken and merchandise laying in the middle of the walkway of Bayside.

Hallandale Beach in Broward County has now put a curfew into effect from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. until further notice.

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UN: Israel blamed by UN for excessive force against Palestinians in Gaza

UN votes to blame Israel for excessive force against Palestinians in Gaza

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USA May 1 Labor day: Seattle ‘riot’: Police deploy flashbangs, tear gas against May Day marchers

Protesters at a May Day march in Seattle, Washington clashed with police during what law enforcement called "a riot" on Friday. Officers deployed flashbangs and pepper spray to try and get the crowd under control.

Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets Friday to participate in pro-worker, anti-police-brutality rallies, as well as one that was billed as anti-capitalist. According to the Seattle Times, one protester broke a window and others threw rocks at police before law enforcement responded with flash bangs.

Three officers have been injured at the scene of a melee at Broadway and Howell, the Seattle Police Department tweeted, two of which were hurt seriously. A total of fifteen people have been arrested across the city, police said.

One protester has reportedly thrown a burning object into a vehicle. Police said fires have been ignited at Seattle Plaza and that 25 vehicles have been damaged.

Read more: Seattle ‘riot’: Police deploy flashbangs, tear gas against May Day marchers (VIDEOS) — RT USA

USA Riots: Outrage across US over Ferguson ruling

Thousands of people rallied in US cities including Los Angeles and New York to protest against a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.

Gunshots rang out and police lobbed tear gas at an angry crowd in suburban St Louis after the grand jury decision was announced late on Monday.

Angry protesters overran barricades and taunted police in Ferguson, with some chanting "murderer" and others throwing stones and bottles, as police car windows were smashed and protesters tried to set vehicles ablaze.

Officers responded by firing what authorities said was smoke and pepper spray into the crowd, as some in the crowd tried to stop others from taking part in the violence.

The protesters ignored calls by US President Barack Obama on Monday night to accept the grand jury's decision.

"We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury's to make," Obama said. He echoed Brown's parents in calling for any protests to be peaceful.

Read more: Outrage across US over Ferguson ruling - Americas - Al Jazeera English

Sweden Riots, Immigration, Inequality and Race - by April Salchert

As a person who has been a resident foreigner in two countries, I've learned a few things about when I hear the word 'immigrants' in the news. When people in politics use the term immigration they are not talking about naturalization or long lines for residence visas, they are talking about race and inequality, all nicely baked into a politically hot topic.

A Korean Times article recently discussed the growing issues in Korea regarding race discrimination and lack of multicultural education in schools. Korea has an increasing population of immigrants and children from mixed ethnic and racial backgrounds. The reaction to this new population is severely polarized. Moreover, the Korean government will probably be rejecting a bill that would put a legal boundary on racial discrimination: "Although an anti-discrimination bill was presented in the National Assembly in March, it is unlikely to be passed due to opposition from right-wing lawmakers."

Here in Korea, I'm a waygookin (외국인). Waygookin essentially means "foreigner" and it applies to anyone who is not Korean. We waygookins have adopted this term into our own expat vernacular and shortened it to "waygook." In fact, there's even a site, waygook.org, which is a forum for foreigners.

The term itself doesn't bother me, but the reactions associated with it do. There's pointing, laughing, and staring. After a few months, it's easy to become paranoid, frustrated, and agitated. Also, you start noticing things you didn't notice initially: An employee waiting outside a restaurant to make sure you pay, or being denied service altogether, for no apparent reason. Being a target of every pointing finger feels like Chinese water torture some days. Just little drops of ignorant behavior. No wonder some people go crazy and start burning cars. Not that I condone violence, but I'm starting to understand where it's coming from.

Read more: April Salchert: Sweden Riots, Immigration, Inequality and Race

EU, Britain and ANHRI condemn escalation of violence - by Luiz Sanchez

Britain and the European Union denounced the violence that followed the Port Said massacre verdict which sentenced 21 people to death on Saturday.

Britain strongly condemned the violence, calling for maximum restraint after at least 30 people were killed in Port Said. British foreign office minister Alistair Burt expressed his concern, saying the violence “cannot help the process of dialogue which we encourage as vital for Egypt today, and we must condemn the violence in the strongest terms.”

He continued by offering condolences to the families of those who have died on behalf of the United Kingdom. “We remain committed as a strong friend of Egypt and the Egyptian people to support the aim of strengthening true democracy,” Burt said.

“The right to peaceful freedom of expression and assembly is an essential part of this, but the violence we have seen [Saturday] can have no place in a truly democratic Egypt.”

Read more: EU, Britain and ANHRI condemn escalation of violence - Daily News Egypt

Egypt: Morsi flees as angry crowd storms Cairo palace in clash with riot police

Egyptian riot police have fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against President Mohamed Morsi near the presidential palace in Cairo. At least 18 people have been injured in violent clashes.

Presidential sources say Morsi left the palace as the crowd started getting out of control.
Protesters broke through police lines and barbed wire barricades in front of the presidential palace, with riot police responding with tear gas.

To avoid further confrontation police forces then reportedly retreated, allowing the demonstrators to move closer to the palace.

Thousands of demonstrators marched to the palace in protest of Morsi's decree which grants him near absolute powers, and a draft constitution which was quickly adopted by his allies.

Read more: Morsi flees as angry crowd storms Cairo palace in clash with riot police — RT

Polish police clash with rightwing independence day protesters

Polish riot police used truncheons in Warsaw on Sunday to break up a crowd of rightwing extremists pelting them with firecrackers and lumps of concrete after a parade to mark the national holiday turned violent.

Thousands of police had earlier lined the streets of the capital to try to stop rightwing nationalists and radical leftwing groups from using the independence day holiday as an opportunity to fight each other.

It was the second year the celebrations had degenerated into violence, underlining the deep gulf between those who want a conservative, religious society that rejects foreign influence and those who want Poland to join the European mainstream.

As demonstrators gathered for the rightwing rally, young men with their faces covered by scarves chanted nationalist slogans and railed against supposed Jewish conspiracies.

Read more: Polish police clash with rightwing independence day protesters | World news | guardian.co.uk

Britain is in last chance saloon, says Iain Duncan Smith - by Andrew Sparrow

he work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has said Britain is in the "last chance saloon", with the riots a warning that social problems could get worse.

In an interview with the Spectator, Duncan Smith said: "This is our warning. That wasn't the crisis, but the crisis is coming. We can't let this go on any more, and I think the prime minister sees that."

The former Conservative party leader also said dealing with the causes of the riots would define Cameron's premiership in the way that responding to 9/11 defined Tony Blair.

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Entitlements: Riots in Britain raise questions about whether America could face similar violence

A black man killed by police. Mobs of looters. Cities charred and shaken. The riots in London mirror some of the worst uprisings in modern U.S. history.

And there are more parallels: Stubborn poverty and high unemployment, services slashed due to recessionary budget cuts, a breakdown of social values, social media that bring people together for good or bad at the speed of the Internet. And finally, there are a handful of actual attacks, isolated and hard to explain, by bands of youths in U.S. cities.

As Americans look across the Atlantic, a natural question arises: Could the flames and violence that erupted in Britain scar this country, too?

"History shows that the social tinder for such eruptions of massive violence and looting is usually widespread poverty without hope, and the spark is typically an incident of police brutality in the absence of a culture of police accountability," said Benjamin Todd Jealous, CEO of the NAACP. "Such conditions exist in almost every major American city."

Others, like British Prime Minister David Cameron, blame "criminality, pure and simple." That echoes descriptions of some recent episodes of mob behavior in places like Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago and Ohio. Stores have been pillaged, passers-by robbed, and random victims brutally attacked by dozens or occasionally hundreds of youths summoned through tools like Facebook and Twitter.

For more: Riots in Britain raise questions about whether America could face similar violence - 8/13/2011 2:08:28 PM | Newser

Riots hit UK economy, from corner shops to tourism

Stores smashed and looted by rampaging mobs, buildings in flames — the damage was to London and other English cities, but the images were beamed around the world.

Four days of riots have already cost businesses and insurers hundreds of millions of dollars. The cost to Britain's reputation — and its lucrative tourist trade in the runup to the 2012 Olympic Games — may be incalculable.

London's historic center, visited by millions of tourists a year, has been almost untouched by the riots which hit a handful of inner-city and suburban areas. That hasn't stopped images of flaming buildings and shattered shops under headlines like "London's burning" flashing around the globe.

For more: The Associated Press: Riots hit UK economy, from corner shops to tourism

Britain burns: Riots spread through UK cities - by David Stringer and Raphael G. Satter

British police say three people have been arrested over the alleged attempted murder of a police officer as violent riots swept through London for a third night and spread to other cities for the first time.

Note EU-Digest: FIFA officials announced that the soccer game planned for Wednesday in London between the Netherlands and Britain will probably be postponed because of the riots there.

For more: Britain burns: Riots spread through UK cities - NewsTimes