Protesters overturned a car before setting it alight in Sunderland town centre, while other yobs sprayed fire extinguisher foam and threw bricks at armed police officers, and smashed a bus shelter.
Sunderland police station has been ransacked and set on fire, as far right protesters took to the streets of Britain.
It comes as hundreds of mosques are beefing up their security of fears that planned rallies in the wake of the Southport stabbings will spill over into full-on riots this weekend. The person shooting the video is heard saying 'no need for this at all', as the protesters smash the black vehicle stuck in traffic.
Meanwhile, 10 Downing Street in London was lit up in pink in remembrance of the victims killed in the Southport attack. The action is the latest following the stabbing in Southport in which three young children were killed and eight others suffered knife wounds. Seventy-year-old Pat, who did not want to give her second name, held a placard saying 'Nans against Nazis'.
Thousands of people turned out to pay their respects to the victims at a vigil in Southport on Tuesday evening, but violence later erupted outside a mosque in the town with 53 police officers and three police dogs injured. Speaking outside the mosque on Friday evening, Ibrahim Hussein said: 'On Tuesday night I thought I was the unluckiest man in the whole of the country.'Look at all of these beautiful people. Look at all these faces, and different faiths. We have people here from the church and from the synagogue.''But it is not about Southport Mosque, it is not about our suffering,' Mr Hussein said.
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