Three cars were hijacked and set on fire Saturday night in Newtownabbey, an area on the outskirts of Belfast. The BBC reported that police officers were targeted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks.
On Friday night, 27 police officers were injured and eight people were arrested during riots in Belfast and Londonderry. Police said they came under "sustained attack" from a large group of young people throwing stones, bottles and fireworks. The Police Federation for Northern Ireland called for an end to the violence and said people destroying their own communities was "not the way to protest or vent."
Tensions flared as some members of Northern Ireland's legislature sought to censure two dozen politicians from the Irish republican Sinn Fein party who attended the June funeral of Bobby Storey, a former head of intelligence for the Irish Republican Army. Officials recently said they would not prosecute the politicians for alleged breaches of coronavirus restrictions.
Northern Ireland's first minister, Arlene Foster, has urged young people not to "get drawn into disorder" and refrain from attacking police.
They shut the taps off
Brexit...Period! That’s the cause! Just ask them....
That looks serious.
Looks mostly peaceful
My cousin married a lady from Northern Ireland. Things can get rough there. Lots of bigotry and hate still simmering there from past troubles.
Sure, as long as the government wins everyone should just calm down right?
Internal Political Terrorism abused by the Politicians that have self serving objectives. Sadly they use and abuse the mentally lacking to carry out their dirty work, just as Trump did in the Capital Invasion. Don’t join the Conjobs
I'm old enough to remember when riots with similar or much worse backdrops were deemed mostly peaceful.