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Rioters to face 'full force of the law,' UK's Starmer says
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8/7/2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday (Aug 6) that sufficient police would be on the streets to handle anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant riots in the coming days as he sought to reassure communities braced for more violent protests.
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Over 400 people now have been arrested, 100 have been charged, some in relation to online
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activity and a number of them are already in court and I'm now expecting substantive
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sentencing before the end of this week. That should send a very powerful message to anybody
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involved either directly or online that you are likely to be dealt with within a week
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and that nobody, but nobody, should be involving themselves in this disorder.
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So within a week the criminal justice system really has shown the robust and swift response
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that I think is very important to sending a message in circumstances like this.
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We're doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is needed it's in
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place, where support is needed for particular places that that is in space. Obviously it's
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a difficult situation with disorder going on in a number of different places at the
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same time but that is precisely why I held my second COBRA meeting today to coordinate
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the response and to get the assurance that I want and need that we do have adequate police
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in place, that we are able to cope with this disorder. But the message has to go to those
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who are involving themselves in this disorder which is you're wrong, you shouldn't be doing
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it and you will fall in the full force of the law as I hope we've been able to demonstrate
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with these swift prosecutions. Our first duty has to be to our communities to keep
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them safe. That is my sole focus. The police are doing a difficult job in difficult circumstances
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and I think that everybody should be given their full support to ensure that we can make
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sure that our streets are safe and our communities feel safe and secure.
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