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By whipping up Islamophobia with comments about Muslims and immigrants not being part of ‘British culture’, Farage reveals his true colours,
In London you would never see them rioting on the scale that they have outside London,
I normally walk through this city center all the time,
said Nadeem Akhtar, 18, who has lived in Sheffield his whole life We today have got such brilliant numbers in our community,
an organizer shouted through a megaphone to a hastily organized crowd There are many, many more of us than you,
crowds chanted at the anti-racism demonstrations across the country, bolstered by a markedly stronger police presence than over the weekend, and with virtually no sign of any far-right supporters I ain’t done nothing. Double standards.”
As one man was escorted away by police, he called out The richest man in the world is stirring the pot for a race war,
It's good that we didn't see the level of disorder and criminality on our streets that we have in previous days,
They're thugs and criminals,
There are consequences for the criminality on our streets, and I think that swift justice that we're seeing is also helping to make people think twice about getting involved,
I think the show of force from the police, and frankly, the show of unity from communities, together defeated the challenges that we've seen,
Any suggestion they're patriots, or they've got a cause... is nonsense,
We have been out doing some dawn raids this morning, the people who were most violent in the Whitehall protests and violence last week … about 70% of them have got criminal backgrounds,
The response then of the police in terms of arresting people who were involved in criminal acts over the last week, bringing them into police stations, getting them charged, getting them then in front of a court … people are now going to prison for the acts they carried out on our streets in our last few days,
the policing minister said Over 400 people have been arrested, I’m hoping and I know that number will increase today. We’ve got over 140 people charged, that number will go up as well. We will start to see again today more people going into court and receiving sentences.”
It doesn't look like the far right are going to show
Taxi driver Ali Shah, 43, said To see this turnout of at least 2,000 people - it is heartwarming
A local restaurateur who gave his name as Farooq added We've facilitated a largely peaceful protest but we won't tolerate acts of criminality.
Avon and Somerset Police said We've done a good job of scaring them away.
One woman, whose face was obscured, said Look at their turnout - it's pathetic
Steve Squibbs, of Stand Up to Racism, said of the far-right gathering