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# UK Riots Were Worse Than You Thought
- URL: https://offbeatshow.com/uk-riots-were-worse-than-you-thought/
- Published: 2024-08-13T17:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2024-08-13T17:00:07.000Z
- Description: I went to the Hull protest to see whether the media had it right. Then the mob turned on me.
- Author: Tommie McDonald
- Tags: Films, #Import 2026-09-03 15:01

After the Southport stabbings, protests were called across the country and riots had already broken out in Sunderland and Southport. I went to Hull, to a protest organised by John Francis Gilling of the Hull Patriotic Protestors, which I'd first seen advertised by Alan Leggett's ActivePatriot account.

I went to find out whether it really was the far-right event the coverage described, or whether that was too easy a story. It became a racist riot within hours — looting, fires, Muslims and immigrants attacked, their businesses attacked, and a hotel housing asylum seekers surrounded.

I spoke to protesters and to rioters. While I was filming, the mob turned on me and I got away with cuts and bruises. This film is my attempt to make sense of what I watched happen.