Wolverhampton Riots 2011 Firework hits police officer (last 20 secs)
SKIP TO THE LAST 20 SECONDS TO SEE THE FIREWORK Queens Square, Wolverhampton City Centre 09/08/2011. i was watching a man vent to police officers when someone threw a firework/banger kind of thing into the crowd of people that were gathered round him that i was standing in. i saw it and ran, but not everybody noticed it. it hit a policeman in the eyes and he had to be carried off by his colleagues clutching at his face, unable to walk - you can see him just about to drop in the last few seconds of the video. obviously, i got out of there and stopped filming so did not catch the aftermath. the last thing i saw was the policeman being taken inside one of the large police vans
Belfast riots: Video of Irish youths attacking police vans
A British news agency said Wednesday that one of its photographers had suffered a leg injury during sectarian clashes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, overnight Tuesday. Hundreds of rioters threw petrol bombs and attacked police vans in east Belfast on Tuesday as sectarian violence flared up for a second night in Northern Ireland. Police said about 400 people were involved in unrest in the Short Strand, a small Catholic community in a predominantly Protestant area of east Belfast. Masked and hooded youths threw bricks, bottles, fireworks and other missiles at each other, and at armoured police vehicles. Police fired more than 60 plastic bullets at the youths. Police said the violence started Monday when masked members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary Protestant group that claims to have disarmed, attacked Catholic homes with bricks, fireworks and smoke bombs. Catholic leaders said the violence was unprovoked, but Protestant leaders said the Protestant mob appeared to be retaliating for smaller-scale attacks by Short Strand youths on Protestant homes the night before. Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson condemned the riot, which came as a separate bomb attack from dissident republicans targeted police in west Belfast early Tuesday.
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