THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Second Night of Violent Protests Over Migrant Crime, Riot Police Deploy Water Cannon.
Northern Ireland faces escalating unrest after an attempted beheading, allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker, with Wednesday seeing a second day of protests targeting migrant housing and widespread clashes with police.
Northern Ireland faces escalating unrest after an attempted beheading, allegedly carried out by a Sudanese asylum seeker, with Wednesday seeing a second day of protests targeting migrant housing and widespread clashes with police. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Wednesday saw a second night of violent protests in Northern Ireland following the attempted beheading of a white man in Belfast, in which the suspect is a Sudanese man who enter the country via France and the Republic of Ireland. Masked men clashed with law enforcement, setting vehicles ablaze and targeting suspected migrant housing, and riot police used water cannon against them. DETAIL: Police used water cannons to disperse crowds attempting to storm a hotel in Newtownabbey,…Open