The home secretary lashed out at the summer rioters during a speech at the Labour conference in Liverpool. Yvette Cooper condemned the riots which took place following the Southport stabbings which claimed the lives of three children. "Don't anyone tell me that was protest. It was arson, it was racism, it was thuggery, it was crime," she said.
Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Eight weeks ago, when the unbearable news broke about a horrendous attack in
00:06Southport on little children at a summer dance club, from all across the country
00:12our hearts went out to the loved ones of little Alice, Bebe and Elsie. The
00:18following day I met the police officers, paramedics and firefighters who were
00:22first on the scene that day and whose bravery in the face of such trauma saved
00:27many young lives. But within hours the same Southport police were under attack.
00:35So don't anyone tell me that was protest. Don't anyone tell me that was about
00:41immigration or policing or poverty. Plenty of people have strong views on
00:45immigration, on crime, on the NHS and more, but they don't pick up bricks and
00:49throw them at the police. They don't set light to buildings with people inside.
00:54It was arson. It was racism. It was thuggery. It was crime.