Street violence intensifies in Rotherham as protesters clash with police

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Violence intensified on the streets of Rotherham on Sunday (August 4) in the latest wave of unrest after three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children's dance class in Southport in northwest England last week.

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00:00Violence intensified on the streets of Rotherham on Sunday in the latest wave of unrest after
00:08three girls were killed in a knife attack at a children's dance class in Southport in
00:13north-west England last week.
00:16Anti-immigration protesters hurled objects at police and broke several windows at a hotel
00:22that has been used to house asylum seekers.
00:25Some protesters carried Union Jacks and England flags and chanted profanity at police officers
00:30and towards the hotel.
00:32The murders in Southport were seized on by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim groups as misinformation
00:39spread that the suspected attacker was an immigrant and a radical Islamist.
00:49Police said the suspect was born in Britain and media reports have said his family is
00:54Christian.
00:55The weekend's protests followed several days of disorder in towns and cities across Britain,
01:01including Liverpool, Bristol and Manchester.

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