Mapping far-right riots in the UK (2024)

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What caused the riots in the UK? ›

Disorganised groups of racists took to the streets immediately. These riots have been blamed on the initial spread of both misinformation – led by a usual coterie of bad actors – social media and Elon Musk specifically – and disinformation pushed by Russian and Israeli actors.

Violence in south Belfast, where anti-immigration and anti-racism protesters faced off in tense scenes outside the city hall, involved “racist elements”, a judge has said. Police are investigating an assault on a man whose head was reportedly stamped on as a racially motivated hate crime.

The protests started in Tottenham Hale, London, following the killing of Mark Duggan, a local black man who was shot dead by police on 4 August.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper earlier pledged the government would support police with additional costs for officers working overtime. In addition to more riot police being put on standby, forces are also stepping up neighbourhood policing patrols while teams of detectives investigate.

They followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July, in which three children were killed. The attacker was falsely alleged on social media to be a Muslim asylum seeker. The first riot started in Southport and later many protests and riots spread across the country.

A free concert in Aotea Square, Auckland, to celebrate the end of the 1984 academic year turned ugly when riot police attempted to arrest a drunken man who urinated on the crowd from a roof. Members of the audience resisted the police, who decided to close down the concert.

Protesting is legal in England and Wales, the right to protest is protected under the European Convention of Human Rights. However, this only applies to peaceful protest and does not extend to any violence inflicted or damage caused during a protest.

c. 5), sometimes called the Riot Act 1714 or the Riot Act 1715, was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unlawfully assembled and order them to disperse or face punitive action.

At the end of the rioting, five people had died, including a 68-year-old man who was attacked while attempting to stamp out a litter-bin fire in Ealing. Dozens of people were left homeless and more than 200 people were injured, the vast majority of them police officers.

Historically, riots have occurred due to poverty, unemployment, poor living conditions, governmental oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between ethnic groups (race riot) or religions (e.g., sectarian violence, pogrom), the outcome of a sporting event (e.g., sports riot, football hooliganism) or frustration ...

What was the moral panic 2011 London riots? ›

The conclusion returns to the question of moral panic. It suggests that since most of what happened had clear precedents in the series of urban riots since the 1980s, there is plenty of evidence to support the idea that the constructions of the 2011 riots are best understood as a moral panic.

Disorganised groups of racists took to the streets immediately. These riots have been blamed on the initial spread of both misinformation – led by a usual coterie of bad actors – social media and Elon Musk specifically – and disinformation pushed by Russian and Israeli actors.

What was the problem? Two days after the police shooting of a local black man, Mark Duggan, in north London on 6 August 2011, protestors gathered outside the local police station. Mishandling of this protest led to the outbreak of violence and looting.

The perception that the Protestant British State was giving ground to 'popery' fostered protest both in England and Scotland, spearheaded by the Protestant Association. The London branch invited a Scottish peer, Lord George Gordon, to head their cause and to create further pressure on Parliament.

"Walking for God and Raising Hell: the Jubilee Riots"

The Orange Order, famously promoting a British Protestant version of Canada, had denounced the series of pilgrimages proposed by Archbishop John Lynch. Toronto's mayor had also unsuccessfully tried to persuade the Roman Catholic Archbishop to cancel the event.

The riots were derived from ethnic tensions between the Caribbean and British Asian communities, with the spark for the riot being an alleged gang rape of a teenage black girl by a group of South Asian men. The rape allegation has never been substantiated.

Historically, riots have occurred due to poverty, unemployment, poor living conditions, governmental oppression, taxation or conscription, conflicts between ethnic groups (race riot) or religions (e.g., sectarian violence, pogrom), the outcome of a sporting event (e.g., sports riot, football hooliganism) or frustration ...

The riot is often believed to have been triggered by an assault against Majbritt Morrison, a white Swedish woman, on 29 August 1958. Morrison had been arguing with her Jamaican husband Raymond Morrison at the Latimer Road Underground station.