"I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder," Starmer said, "whether directly or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves. This is not protest, it is organized violent thuggery and it has no place on our streets or online."
On Sunday, British protesters stormed a hotel housing migrants near Rotherham, smashing windows and setting at least one fire close to the facility. This comes as anti-mass migration riots rip across the United Kingdom in response to the deadly mass stabbing attack of children attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport earlier in the week. The teen suspect, identified as Axel Rudakubana, is the son of African migrant parents but was reportedly born in the UK, police said.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Holiday Inn Express in West Melton near Rotherham and violently clashed with police as they moved to target the facility. Video footage shows a large team of riot police guarding the hotel to fend off the attacks, as per the BBC.
Rioters hurled trash cans, glass bottles, and other heavy projectiles at police as they shattered windows and set a trash bin on fire near the hotel entrance. "Get them out!" the angry crowd chanted while attacking the facility.
One injured police officer could be seen on video footage being escorted away by two colleagues. Several protesters sprayed police with fire extinguishers until they appeared to have made it inside the building, the Telegraph reported.
According to the BBC, it is unclear whether any "asylum seekers" were inside the hotel at the time of the riot or if it had been evacuated due to earlier protests. Anti-racism counter-protesters from the Stand Up to Racism group were initially present outside the hotel, but reportedly left when the mayhem ensued.
The Rotherham migrant hotel, located in a working-class town, has been at the epicenter of violent protests from angry British citizens expressing fury over its government introducing mass migration policies and radical Islam into the UK. Rotherham was one of the English towns where organized Muslim rape and grooming gangs operated, in which an estimated 1,400 girls were abused.
The scenes occurred in the wake of violent civil unrest that occurred throughout the UK on Saturday, resulting in the arrests of over 100 people, according to the BBC. Liverpool, Belfast, Manchester, and Hull erupted in violence. Police and the UK government condemned the riots.
