to think these people in Sunderland are not "protesting".

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They are not protestors. They are not protesting. They are common or garden thugs and criminals who are causing criminal damage, setting police offices on fire and attacking police officers.

Total scumbags.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl0lkrxgvxo

They are

Nasty
Violent
Criminal
Stupid
Racist
Uncaring
Repellent

Thugs

Feel free to add any words you think I missed.

I'm feeling really upset by it. It's horrible, disgusting, violent behaviour. They're not only attacking the police but Muslims and a mosque too.
I feel so sad for all the Muslims I know who just want to live in peace. They feel so threatened.
My DH is Indian and my children are mixed race (they look more Indian than British) and I feel genuinely scared that they might be targeted by some thugs. It's very unsettling. I can only hope things settle down soon but sadly I know this hatred will always be there.

Him and his partner were in court today and apparently he sobbed. Too little too late.

Yes I saw that. Pathetic

They are the same types that are furious when Just Stop Oil sit in the middle of the road

A volunteer clean up operation is being organised for tomorrow if anyone is local and wants to help.

Locals are meeting at The Peacock at 8am if anyone wants to join us. Bring brushes and bin bags!

it's not even a question, of course they're rioting and of course it's wrong to riot. Who are these people voting to say the OP is being unreasonable? 😳

I thought the police should be using water cannons too. Whatever the police need they should have. They shouldn't have to just stand there and be overwhelmed by people - men - goading them and throwing rocks at them.

I tend to keep away from town at weekends but I'm there Sunday for drinks with dear friends of old.

Bloody hope they stop all this rubbish asap. It's just so disrespectful to those families who've lost their kids and to the people injured. Theyre Just hijacking this tragedy for their own backward idea of fun! Thick as a castle wall

Im not sure why we don’t have this available. Absolutely nobody likes getting soaking wet.

And I keep seeing people saying shit like "Well people are just very angry (about immigration). It's understandable. Maybe they'll listen to us now". WTF?! I'm not angry! These thugs don't speak for me or anyone I know. They sicken me and make feel ashamed to be British.

Of course they should. If only we had prison places to accommodate them.

I saw the picture of the tattooed thug with the swastika and honestly thought it was fake. Then I saw a live stream of him and the youtuber congratulated him on his amazing tattoos. I couldn't actually identify his accent from his expletive-filled racist rant.

Could not believe the footage on the BBC news, referring to "protests" and "protestors". So inaccurate.

Gives you a clue to the percentage of MN users that are far right
I don't know who they are but they are twats

Dangerous ones.

Many of them are young scrotes just wanting to cause trouble with the police. Sunderland does seem to have a particularly bad infestation of them (as does my area) I live a few miles away and know the town well. It's going to kick off massively all over the country this weekend. Scum.

I mean, maybe they pressed the wrong button when voting by accident?

Can't believe anyone thinks rioting is OK.

Ignore it. They are cunts. The majority don't agree. Less than a month ago we voted for a centrist, non divisive government and that tells you something

take care

They haven't even got the guts to post why they think OP is unreasonable.

Cowards.

Agreed! Come on MNetters who think rioting is OK... come and explain yourselves

Far right nut jobs. White nationalists. Concerned trolls

They don't. Bad faith actors on the Internet exploit whatever they can to make it seem as if we are more divided than we are. Even with that, 90% of users disagree.

They can fuck off. We can stand together and not tolerate the far right minority. Incidentally they are voting not posting. Cowards.

It seems a lot like copy cat rioting, it happened a few years ago in London, lots of looting and damage. It does seem to be escalating.

Eight of them have got fat fingers? I doubt it, they make me despair.