The immigration problem in the United Kingdom has been horrible for some time, prompting loads of complaints from the people, but every time an argument is made, the English media has been there to call people racist for daring to suggest migrants are anything but a blessing from the Heavens.
Finally, after innumerable assaults, rapes, and murders, tensions boiled over for the English when three young girls were stabbed to death by the son of Rwandan migrants at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party. This sent people into the streets to protest, and soon these demonstrators became violent. One person caught up in the violence in Southport, England, was Jack Hadfield, a writer at The Publica.
Protestors are starting fires in the garbage bins and on the street as tensions continue to run high in Southport.
Riot police still appear to be focused on protecting the community’s mosque from locals outraged over the murder of three girls yesterday.
📷: @JackHadders pic.twitter.com/yK0pZcUJs2
— ThePublica (@ThePublicaNow) July 30, 2024
Hadfield went to cover the ongoing protest at 8 p.m., and things had already devolved into violence, including burning police cars and bricks being thrown at mosques. Hadfield was moving between this group and the counter-protest group that were separated by two lines of police in an attempt to get both sides of the story. When one of the rioters who overheard him talking to the other side called him out as a journalist, some of the rioters descended on him.
According to Fox News, Hadfield was chased until he was “surrounded” by over a dozen men. He attempted to explain he wasn’t with the mainstream media, but it didn’t matter. They attempted to take his phone, but managed to keep it. He was, however, shoved to the ground and struck, knocking off his glasses and a piece of his tooth.
He attempted to seek shelter with police, but the police refused to help him:
He then ran to the police line that he said was about 50-100 meters, or about 55-109 yards, down St. Luke’s Rd. He said he dropped the piece of his tooth during his sprint for the police line.
“When I was at the police line, the officers there were initially extremely unhelpful, telling me that not only they couldn’t help me, but that I couldn’t stay there,” Hadfield said. “Officers initially directed me west, which would have taken me back further into the areas of the protests, and said I couldn’t be escorted at all.”
After staying for about 10 minutes, Hadfield was told that police lines continued further down St. Luke’s Road, so he made his way in that direction.
“The officers further away from the crowd were much more helpful,” he said. “I wasn’t able to get an ambulance, nor a taxi to the hospital, so I had to stay with the police for just over two hours, while a friend drove around 65 miles in the middle of the night to pick me up and safely escort me home.”
Police told Hadfield on Wednesday that a crime report had been filed over the incident, but he said he remains skeptical anything will come of it.
Hadfield’s story is tragic as he was one of the few journalists who was trying to do what journalists should be doing, but it’s clear that UK citizens have reached a boiling point, and they are outwardly hostile toward both the media and police. One video captured by Hadfield shows protesters cheering as one injured officer walks by.
Multiple police officers have been injured after clashing with locals in #Southport who are outraged over the killing of three little girls yesterday.
Members of the crowd surrounding riot police began CHEERING upon seeing an injured officer walk by just now.🇬🇧
📷:@JackHadders https://t.co/6AFIAEy16f pic.twitter.com/Ln30ZvxQSS
— ThePublica (@ThePublicaNow) July 30, 2024
A lot of this turmoil can be laid at the feet of UK officials, who have been going after UK citizens for the lightest offenses, while migrants seem to largely get a pass for heinous crimes. This has sparked the argument there is a two-tiered policing system in the UK, further deepening the divide between the people and the system, which the UK mainstream media is largely a part of.
Sadly, Hadfield was mistaken as one of the mainstream media’s reporters despite being part of a solid news site.
It’s unlikely that anything will get any better until the UK experiences a massive overhaul in leadership.
