Leeds Riots: HERO Local Politician Tells Me Truth - w/. Mothin Ali
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🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
What really happened in the Leeds riots? Councillor Mothin Ali - who played a heroic role on the scene - explains.
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| 0:00.0 | Now we saw violent scenes of course in Leeds, Hare Hills, |
| 0:04.8 | quite a lot as you would imagine on social media in particular, |
| 0:08.2 | which is completely inaccurate, inflammatory, |
| 0:11.0 | and not interested in the community that's been affected. |
| 0:14.0 | Now with that in mind I'm really delighted to be joined by Mothin Alley. |
| 0:17.0 | Mothin Alley is the Green Party Council for Gipton and Hare Hills Ward in Leeds, |
| 0:22.0 | the ward of course in which we saw these disturbances yesterday, if people |
| 0:25.7 | didn't see them, people, you know, things being set on fire, things being thrown, and |
| 0:31.2 | it looked quite intense, I have to say from the outside. |
| 0:34.0 | Mothenale played a heroic role, very important to note because online |
| 0:37.7 | foul-right extremist pedal glies about his presence, what he was trying to do was |
| 0:41.8 | literally use his body to stop things being set on fire, |
| 0:45.2 | tried to stop destruction. It can't have been easy, muffin. So firstly, how are you doing? |
| 0:51.9 | I'm pretty tired. I got home around 3 o'clock in the morning and |
| 0:57.8 | then I was back here for 9 o'clock so I'm pretty tired. Can you just tell us what happened? |
| 1:04.0 | I mean the incident that sparked the |
| 1:08.0 | incident that sparked the situation |
| 1:11.0 | so some of the fun it's a family issue so and the exact details aren't available so I don't |
| 1:17.3 | think it's fair to go into too much about that. But I got here yesterday about 6.30 in the evening and I saw probably about 1,500 people here. |
| 1:27.6 | They were very angry. One of the police car had been overturned and smashed. |
| 1:33.4 | The crowd was angry but it was contained. |
| 1:36.6 | It was settled. |
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