By Ashley Pemberton A huge clean up operation is underway this morning (Wed) after hundreds of far-right thugs rioted in Southport - leaving 22 police officers injured.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.
Violence flared when hundreds of demonstrators - believed to be supporters of the English Defence League - hurled bricks at cops and set a police van alight.
They'd earlier converged on a mosque, smashing its windows and chanting racist slogans.
It comes after false information spread online about the supposed identity of a 17-year-old arrested for stabbing three children to death at a dance class in the town.
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01:10All the scenes last night was that I couldn't believe what was happening.
01:15He started off at the mosque, and he's headed this way.
01:19There was about six pounds of riot police here, and it was something I've never experienced.
01:29I've been here since 1966, never seen anything like it.
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