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Far-right thugs targeting 100 areas TODAY with 6,000 cops mobilised across 41 police forces
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FAR-right thugs are set to target more than 100 areas today with an army of 6,000 cops mobilised across 41 police forces.
Clashes between rival groups are expected in another night of carnage with 30 counter-demos planned - but so far things have failed to ignite.
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A planned march in Burnley, Lancashire, due to begin at 1pm from Thompson Park, flopped after just two protesters turned up.
The 15-acre park has been left unbothered by protesters in what was to be the first of a series of worrying events.
The Sun saw just two protesters, including one cycling with an England flag, walk around the popular dog walking spot before leaving minutes later.
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Two police cars and a police public order van were dispatched to the site though one officer said heavy showers had likely put some would-be agitators off.
Swathes of staff in targeted areas are being allowed to leave work early - while nurseries have also asked parents to collect kids ahead of time.
Crowds of counter-protesters are beginning to gather in Derby and Middlesbrough.
TikTok lives streams show the gatherings outside shops this afternoon in both locations.
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One shows a protest on Normanton Road, Derby, near the YG3 mens clothing shop, among other businesses.
41 OUT OF 43 FORCES STEELED
Police revealed they are expecting activity in 41 out of the 43 forces in England and Wales.
Further spontaneous protests are also expected.
A source stressed some of the protests will be small-scale peaceful gatherings - but warned police are prepared for trouble at other events.
Asylum centres, law offices and hotels for migrants are feared to be among the potential targets for far-right thugs.
It comes as...
- Britain braces for far-right thug riots at 38 ‘targets’ today
- The Sun calls for a crackdown on social media lies fuelling violence
- List of 30 riot targets ARE genuine threat, say cops
- Riot yobs face TERROR charges, Britain’s top prosecutor says
- Shameless Elon Musk compares UK to Soviet Union for crackdown on cyber lies
- Idiot yob filmed pushing bin at riot cops
- ‘Evil’ riot thugs cover Muslim graves with PAINT in ‘hate crime’
- Defiant locals unite to clean up Britain AGAIN
- Standing Army of specialist cops will tackle rioting yobs
- Thugs ask drivers if they’re ‘white & English’ before letting them pass
Police will mount a guard at some locations identified on social media and are offering safety advice.
The source said the intelligence on planned events "looks like a credible picture."
They added: "There will be lots and lots of gatherings. There will certainly be dozens and dozens across the country."
Around 6,000 riot cops will be on standby to deal with violence – with 2,000 of them being utilised as a mobile force travelling to hotspots when needed.
The Met is supplying 200 officers to Greater Manchester Police while other and southern forces are also deploying cops to the north-west under mutual aid arrangements.
Trouble is being whipped up by "keyboard warriors" online and police vowed to hunt them down.
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The source said: "Whether it is online or on the streets we are going after those involved.
"Intelligence and detectives units are monitoring those on line and higher end keyboard warriors ... .action will be taken against them.
"It might not be immediate but cases and intelligence are being built and we will go after them."
Assistant chief constable Mark Williams, police National Mobilisation Coordinator, said: "There are a huge number of events potentially taking place today that may lead to violent disorder.
"Today is undoubtedly a busy day."
It comes as racist protesters are plotting to attack 39 immigration centres and have shared a sick "arson manual" in a vile online forum.
A Telegram group with more than 14,000 members lists details of immigration lawyers, charities and advice centres across England.
Evil far-right agitators have posted instructions in the group telling thugs to attack the centres at specific times.
The riots in numbers
- 100 far right gatherings are planned today
- 400 people have already been arrested over riots
- 100 people have been charged over the carnage
- 6,000 extra cops have been drafted in to police riots
- 500 extra prison places are planned for rioters
- 51 cops injured while protecting asylum centre in Rotherham
- 53 cops injured in Southport riot last week
One post in the group was seen by more than 125,000 people in just two hours, reports.
Investigation group Red Flare said the channel also features harrowing calls to murder ethnic minority Brits and government ministers.
Other members of the group have shared vile instructions on how to make petrol bombs.
The group includes far-right agitators from abroad - including a Spanish fascist who pledged to "fly England to join you guys".
Some of the asylum centres targeted have now shut or boarded up their windows.
Policing hasn't been tested to this degree
By Jonathan Rose, Senior News Reporter
POLICING has "never been tested" to this degree, an expert has claimed.
The riots broke out in Southport last Tuesday - the day after three young girls were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club.
More than 100 anti-immigration protests are set to take place tonight in almost every part of the country.
Police revealed they are expecting activity in 41 out of the 43 forces in England and Wales.
And former police officer Graham Wettone told the Sun it's difficult to tell how long officers will be able to "sustain" their response to the civil unrest.
He said: "Policing hasn't been tested to this degree. How long they can sustain it for I think is a big question.
"Clearly you can't have officers working 16 hour days and not every police officer is public order trained.
"We haven't now got the time, the capacity or the capability to train every police officer."
When asked about what tactics cops will employ, Wettone called for a bit more "proactivity".
"I think there's been far too much standing around almost waiting to have things thrown at you," he continued.
"Public order can be quite fast moving and dynamic. You need to be fairly decisive and take action as a commander."
Wettone added: "For policing it's identifying the busier places and then focusing your resources there."
Immigration lawyers whose offices are on the list have been told to fireproof their letterboxes.
One lawyer told the BBC: "On Monday I started getting the messages: 'You're on a hitlist.'
"I'm a migrant. I've come here and tried to integrate. I've built my business and raised my family.
"People have been calling up my office to threaten and insult me. I'm just trying to do my job."
Law Society president Nick Emmerson said: "We have serious concerns about the safety of our members."
The areas listed include riot hotspots like London, Birmingham, Aldershot, Middlesbrough, Tamworth and Rotherham.
Cops in Nottingham said an address listed in the city "is home to an elderly person with vulnerabilities".
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Nottinghamshire Police added: "The location has no links whatsoever to any immigration business."
In London one GP practice has been forced to cancel appointments because of a planned riot in nearby.
A police source said: "Wednesday is going to be a busy day. We are still assessing what is credible and what is not."
More than 2,000 extra officers have been drafted in to protect the targets in one of the biggest policing operations since the Second World War.
Yesterday top cops confirmed 6,000 riot officers are braced to deal with potential trouble.
London mayor Sadiq Khan said he is working with Scotland Yard to protect "targeted buildings and places of worship".
Khan added: "I know the shocking scenes have left many Muslims and minority ethnic communities scared and fearful.
Rioters facing justice
A YOB who punched a cop during violent riots in Southport has been jailed for three years - as hundreds appear in court.
Derek Drummond, 58, took part in riots that erupted in Southport on July 30 - the day after a horrific knife rampage that killed three kids.
He pleaded guilty on Monday after admitting to calling officers “s**thouses” before sucker punching PC Tom Ball in the face, leaving him with bruises.
He admitted violent disorder and assaulting an emergency worker at Liverpool Crown Court.
Two other yobs were also jailed today.
Declan Geiran, 29, was found with three lighters when arrested and confessed to the attack on a police vehicle.
The court heard the rioter had also sent threatening messages to a woman who slammed him online, for which he was caged for two months.
He will be joined in prison by Liam Riley, 41, who joined a 100-man march through Liverpool city centre on Saturday.
Riley, of Kirkdale, admitted to violent disorder and a racially aggravated public order offence.
The court heard he appeared to have drunk a lot of alcohol and was found with a poster that said: "This is our city."
He was jailed for 20 months.
"So I ask my fellow Londoners to check on their friends and neighbours.
"Show them that care and compassion is what Londoners are all about."
Last night PM Keir Starmer chaired a second Cobra meeting over the far right carnage.
It came as violent rioting once again gripped Belfast on Tuesday evening.
Cops said a young boy was assaulted by 10 youths and suffered a minor facial injury.
The sickening attack is being treated as hate crime, a police spokesperson said.
But there was relatively little serious rioting yesterday evening despite fears of violent unrest today.
Cops in Liverpool and Durham issued dispersal orders to head off potential unrest - but there was little violence otherwise.
Around 100 people have already been charged in connection with the recent disturbances.
Police chiefs say those figures will "rise significantly" and stress they are not policing political views but "keeping people safe and arresting criminals."
Social media chiefs like Elon Musk MUST face full force of law if sites are used to incite violence, urges ex chief inspector
Sir Thomas Winsor, who previously served as Her Majesty's chief inspector of constabulary, said there should be "criminal liability" for senior managers at social media companies that tolerate "harmful material" and the incitement of crimes on their websites.
When asked how the online sector should be policed by Nick Ferrari on LBC, Sir Thomas replied: "It should be policed according to the law and vigorously.
"I think the Online Safety Act is a big step forward but it doesn't go far enough.
"In my State of Police Report which I gave to Parliament in 2018, I made the point that some social media companies, internet companies, now own and operate what, to many people, have become significant pieces of public infrastructure.
"Therefore their stewardship of that infrastructure is not purely a matter of commercial freedom.
"I said that merely fining some of the world's richest companies for tolerating the presence of harmful material on their websites.
"And incitement to commit a crime is itself a crime, is not enough.
"I said there should be criminal liability for senior managers and that should be at the heart of a system of regulation."
Sir Thomas Winsor, former chief of constabulary, said Elon Musk should "stick to batteries, cars and rockets" and called for implementation of a licensing system for social media companies operating in the UK.
Speaking on LBC with Nick Ferrari, Sir Thomas said: "Mr Musk, it seems to me should stick to batteries, cars and rockets because he's very good at it.
"He should leave to the UK authorities the job of dealing with the protection of the safety and security of our communities."
When asked by Ferrari how he would "actually get your hands on an Elon Musk, or even, if he's San Francisco, a Nick Clegg", Sir Thomas said: "I'm not talking about individuals.
"But if there are executives of large companies and those companies have or are thought to be committing offences - the regulatory system which I contemplated and spoke about five years ago was creating a licensing system in the UK.
"In other words, you need a licence from the government regulatory authority to operate public infrastructure like you do with energy, telecommunications, water and transport - they're no different.
"And the conditions of those licences and if you break them, you can lose your licence, so you're out of business.
"The conditions of the licence could say that the senior executives of the company must spend at least two weeks a year in the UK, and when they come to the UK, they can be lifted."
They said some of those involved in the trouble were not of any political persuasion but merely joining in the trouble.
The source said: "It is a really nuanced picture. There is a level of coordination and planning and it is not particularly sophisticated.
"But a lot of what we are seeing is locals reacting on social media to gatherings outside on the streets and joining in.
"Quite a lot of forces report it is not right wing or left wing but people who are just criminals and looking at it as an excuse to commit violence."
A 14-year-old boy and a pensioner were among the yobs convicted yesterday of taking part in scenes of chaos across the UK.
Rioters are being hauled to court and convicted over their the nights of carnage, with some sobbing as they face justice.
Liverpool man William Nelson Morgan, 69, is the oldest to appear in court so far.
He wielded a wooden bat and resisted arrest when cops detained him.
Morgan admitted violent disorder and possessing an offensive weapon.
Idiot yob Leanne Hodgson also admitted her part in "violent" chaos after shoving a bin at cops - who calmly stepped out of the way.
Hodgson, 43, was a key member of a far-right riot which broke out in Sunderland on Friday.
Footage showed Hodgson pushing a large bin towards a line of riot cops during the carnage.
A large crowd cheered as Hodgson tried to shove the bin into the police line.
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But she was left looking ridiculous after the cops calmly stepped away from the bin, which toppled over.
Yesterday Hodgson pleaded guilty to violent disorder at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court.
Full list of areas on far right thugs' hit list
Aldershot
Canterbury
Chatham
Chelmsford
Bedford
Birmingham
Blackburn
Blackpool
Bolton
Brentford
Brighton
Bristol
Cheadle
Derby
Harrow
Hastings
Hull
Kent
Lincoln
Liverpool
Middlesborough
Newcastle
North Finchley
Northampton
Nottingham
Oldham
Oxford
Peterborough
Portsmouth
Preston
Rotherham
Sheffield
Stoke
Southampton
Southend
Sunderland
Tamworth
Walthamstow
Wigan
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