PROTESTS AS RIOTERS TOOK TO
STREETS SETTING CARS AND HOTELS
ON FIRE.
JOSH LEDERMAN IS ON THE GROUND
WITH THAT REPORT.
>> Reporter: TONIGHT, VIOLENCE
AND VITRIOLE ON THE STREETS.
FOR MORE THAN A WEEK, RIOTS
BREAKING OUT IN CITY AFTER
CITY.
CARS TORCHED IN NORTHEAST
ENGLAND.
THIS HOTEL USED TO HOUSE ASYLUM
SEEKERS SET ABLAZE.
MORE THAN 400 ARRESTS SO FAR,
INCLUDING NEARLY 150 JUST THIS
WEEKEND.
POLICE WARNING THE NUMBER WILL
RISE.
>> I CAN CONFIRM TODAY WE HAVE
SEEN AT LEAST 12 INJURED WITH
ITEMS SUCH AS BRICKS OR
BRANCHES.
>> Reporter: AUTHORITIES
BLAMING MUCH OF THE VIOLENCE ON
FAR-RIGHT EXTREMIST GROUPS.
PRIME MINISTER ON THE JOB ONLY
A MONTH.
>> WHATEVER THE APPARENT
MOTIVATION, THIS IS NOT
PROTEST.
IT IS PURE VIOLENCE, AND WE
WILL NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON
MOSQUES OR OUR MUSLIM
COMMUNITIES.
>> Reporter: COMMUNITIES NOW
LIVING IN FEAR.
>> MUSLIM PEOPLE, WE’RE NOT
TERRORISTS.
THAT’S HOW I FEEL.
I FEEL LIKE WE’RE BEING
THREATENED.
IT’S NOT SAFE.
>> Reporter: AMID THE CHAOS,
COUNTER PROTESTERS PUSHING
BACK.
WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?
THE IMMEDIATE TRIGGER, THE
MURDER LAST WEEK OF THREE YOUNG
GIRLS IN A HORRIFIC STABBING
SPREE.
IN THE HOURS AFTER, FAR-RIGHT
PROVOCATEURS POSTED
DISINFORMATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA
CLAIMING THE SUSPECT WAS AN
IMMIGRANT IN THE U.K.
ILLEGALLY.
IT WENT VIRAL BUT IT WASN’T
TRUE.
THE SUSPECT IS A 17-YEAR-OLD
BORN IN THE U.K.
>> SOCIAL MEDIA PUT ROCKET
BOOSTERS ON THIS.
THE ORGANIZATION, THE INFLAMING
ATTENTIONS, AND ALSO THE
MISINFORMATION.
WE WILL BE PURSUING THIS WITH
THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES.
>> Reporter: HUGE NUMBERS OF
ASYLUM SEEKERS ARRIVING IN
SMALL BITES.
>> HOW DO YOU FEEL AS A BRIT
WHEN YOU SEE WHAT’S TAKING
PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY?
>> ASHAMED.
THAT’S THE WORD, ASHAMED.
IT’S A REALLY SMALL MINORITY.
>> Reporter: WITH THE CLEAN UP
UNDER WAY, PAINFUL QUESTIONS
ABOUT WHAT KIND OF A NATION THE
U.K.
WANTS TO BE.
THERE ARE NO SIGNS THESE RIOTS
ARE CALMING DOWN.
MORE PROTESTS EXPECTED IN
DUBLIN AND BIRMINGHAM.
THE U.K.
GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCING IT WILL
DEPLOY A STANDING ARMY OF
SPECIALIZED POLICE OFFICERS TO
RESPOND.