Who were England’s 2024 rioters?
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, from 12-year-old boys to drunken grandpa's, |
| 0:12.0 | the rioters who unleashed terror across England this summer. Today in Focus is supported by Sky Mobile, the UK's fastest growing network. |
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| 1:27.0 | A quick warning before we start, this episode contains one example of offensive and Islamophobia language. There was a week this summer when England felt on the edge. It began in Southport with the killing of three little girls at a Taylor Swift dance class. |
| 1:54.4 | Josh Halliday, the Guardian's North of England editor, was in the seaside town to cover the attacks |
| 1:59.8 | when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a riot. |
| 2:03.0 | I'm still shocked by how quickly all turned violent. |
| 2:10.0 | Get back. He couldn't quite believe what he was seeing. |
| 2:17.0 | It looked like a family outing for some people and I remember her mom telling someone who stood next to me that she driven from Liverpool parked right outside the mosque, |
| 2:27.4 | but stood next to her was her son, you know, primary school age looking absolutely terrified. This was the first week of the |
| 2:35.4 | summer holidays. Here these children were you know on the front line of a very |
| 2:39.5 | very dangerous and unpredictable riot it just astounded me really. |
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