Full on roaming EDL gangs. Pretty insane stuff. This article doesn’t do it justice. Most of the footage I’ve seen has been on Instagram.

The craziest part is they started in response to a misogynist terror attack in Southport. The suspect of the terror attack was Welsh born, with parents from Rwanda, and is most likely Christian. So naturally they started lynching Muslims.

EDIT: This next part is dubious.

Apparently before it all kicked off there was a russian clickfarm that posted a fake article calling the suspect ‘Ali Muhammad’ or some sort of very stereotypical islamic name, before all the real information had come out.

I mean, not that you can really blame it all on that. It was just a fuse waiting to be lit.

More accurately investigated here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024-08-02/did-russian-disinformation-fuel-the-southport-protests/

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    I’ve seen the far right response to this. They’ll say it’s blood and not his birth certificate or passport that makes him british. They make memes about this shit.

    My father is of mostly old stock british ancestry (his family has been in the US since before the revolutionary war). To these wierd chuds I’d be more british than the attacker even though he was born in britain and my family has been in the US for over 300 years.