Thugs clash with cops in Hartlepool after Southport tragedy
RIOTERS hurled bricks at cops and set a police car on fire in Hartlepool after violent clashes in Downing Street saw one hundred people arrested.
Cops confirmed that four people had been arrested for various offences including public order and affray.Men in balaclavas were said to have hit the police with huge wooden bats.Chief Superintendent David Sutherland said: “We currently have a high policing presence while officers respond to disorder that is taking place in Hartlepool following a protest that began this evening.
The attack saw Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, fatally stabbed.
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