Mobs of armed Muslims, many waving Palestinian flags, took over swathes of Birmingham, England’s second city, on Monday, and pursued journalists from the areas under their control “for miles.”
(Article by Jack Montgomery republished from TheNationalPulse.com)
Fraser Knight, a reporter for LBC, described how he was “chased out of an area of east Birmingham by groups of Asian men who had come out to ‘protect their community’ against a planned far-right demonstration” in a post on X (formerly Twitter), referring to men of South Asian rather than Far Eastern heritage.
“The security guard with me decided immediately it wasn’t safe for us—it was clear we weren’t welcome—but there wasn’t a safe place for us to go for miles,” he continued, noting how cars followed them and that “at one point a group of around six men ran after us down a road with what looked like a weapon.”
“We were forced to run,” he added.
In a longer article on his experience, Knight questioned the “lack of a police presence.”
“In the 40 minutes we were there, we saw perhaps two or three police cars driving past,” he said. “There were no officers on the streets that we walked. There were no vans on standby nearby that I could see. It felt like it was them against us—and there were a lot more of them.”
What is happening on the streets of Britain is causing real tensions among communities.
As a reporter, I’ve just been chased out of an area of east Birmingham by groups of Asian men who had come out to ‘protect their community’ against a planned far-right demonstration.
The…
— Fraser Knight (@Fraser_Knight) August 5, 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is accused of presiding over a two-tier policing regime amid the current riotous protests overtaking Britain, sparked by the deadly mass stabbing of multiple young girls by the teenage son of two African migrants in Southport.
Starmer denies the charge, as does the nation’s top police officer, Sir Mark Rowley, who went so far as to " rip a microphone from a journalist’s hand and throw it on the ground—a criminal offense—when he was asked a question about two-tier policing.
The scenes in Birmingham only strengthen the accusations of a two-tier system for the “far right” and ethnic minorities, however. Almost everywhere they have gone, anti-mass migration protestors have been confronted aggressively by police in full riot gear. On the other hand, Muslim counter-demonstrators have been met by police liaison officers politely requesting that they deposit any weapons they are carrying unlawfully at nearby mosques.
In addition to Knight’s issues in Birmingham, a broadcast by Comcast’s Sky News in the city was terminated after a mob of masked Muslims shouting “Free Palestine!” and making gun signs descended on them.
In a later incident, a Sky News crew filmed a Muslim with a knife stabbing the wheels of their van.
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