There were scenes of violence and chaos in Leeds on Thursday night (July 18) with fires started in the street and police cars overturned and smashed up in a mass riot.
Police were called to the large scale disorder as hundreds descended on the street. Crowds were seen throwing items at police cars and starting a huge blaze in the middle of the road.
People have described the scenes as ‘mayhem’ and ‘a riot’ on social media. A number of videos surfaced online showing scooters, pushchairs, bikes and bats also being used in the assault on a police car.
And a police inspector with West Yorkshire Police was even filmed on a social media video urging people to ‘stay in their houses’ amid the growing chaos. Riot police in protective gear were also seen being attacked. Read here.
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West Yorkshire Police said they were initially called to an incident at an address on Luxor Street and found a ‘disturbance’ involving agency workers and children. More people then started to arrive before ‘pockets of disorder’ began breaking out in the area.
Jesus, the M.E.N website is a dumpster fire of pop-ups and advertising.
I think I recollect actually opening it up initially on Edge and being like “lol what, no,” and then moving to Brave to open it up
(I use two different browsers actively at work - I have contemplated using Brave exclusively but a few heavy use websites I have are actually smoothest in Edge of all things)