A video circulating on social media showing a girl shouting racial slurs in the street while holding hands with an adult has drawn widespread condemnation.
In the footage, a girl can be seen skipping down the street holding an older woman’s arm as she repeatedly shouts “F***s out” before an anti-immigration rally in Belfast.
The woman filming the clip can be heard challenging them as she accuses the older woman of teaching the girl racism.
“It’s really embarrassing that you would bring your son and let him say something like that. It’s really embarrassing that you are teaching your child racism,” she says.
Since the disorder began last week, activists have accused parents in far-right riots of hypocrisy for putting their sons and daughters in danger, leading them to violent demonstrations – where they sing about protecting children.
Labor MP Kate Osborne said The Independent children should not be “exposed” to “extreme right-wing violence” and the rioters who carry out Nazi greetings by condemning parents who take their children “into riots and violence” and put them at risk of being harmed.
Ms Osborne said: “It is disturbing to see children on the streets chanting racist slogans, swearing at people and worrying that their parents think it is OK to indoctrinate their children in this way.
“Reports of arrests of children as young as 11 and the video that emerged of a young girl at a protest shouting the P-word as she skipped down the street in Belfast are an example of how this horrific behavior is happening.”
We were dismayed to see evidence of parents bringing their children to watch horrific scenes of far-right violence at numerous events over the past week.
Joe Mulhall
More than 400 people were arrested following riots over the weekend, with thugs trying to set fire to hotels housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and Tamworth.
Children and teenagers have been seen among the mobs – with their families and alone.
On Monday, a 14-year-old boy pleaded guilty in Liverpool to violent disorder after setting off fireworks at the public and a police aircraft carrier.
Last week, an 11-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a police car and a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of violent disorder in Hartlepool.
After the Belfast footage was released, a spokesperson for the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: “Some of the scenes we have witnessed on the streets of Belfast in recent days have been disgusting and do not reflect the views and feelings of the wider Belfast society. Northern Ireland. .
“There is absolutely no excuse for such racist, violent and disturbing behavior and we will do everything in our power, with the resources we have, to prevent further disorder and to bring those responsible before the courts. It is essential that the general public helps us with this by telling us what they know about the people involved in this disease.”
Joe Mulhall, director of research at I hope you don’t hatesaid: “We were shocked to see evidence of parents bringing their children to watch horrific scenes of far-right violence at several events last week.
“There were also examples of young people involved in riots and racist chants. Some of those involved will find themselves in serious legal problems. Education starts at home and it is very important that parents teach tolerance and understanding, not racism and hate.”
Maria Kitsiou, head of domestic children at Osbornes Law, said parents who take children to riot risk being referred to social services.
“A parent’s decision to take a child to a far-right riot will expose that child to violence and the risk of physical and emotional harm that will constitute parental neglect,” she said. “Parents will be putting their child’s safety at risk.”
Reports of arrests of children as young as 11 and the video that emerged of a young girl at a protest shouting the P-word as she skipped down the street in Belfast are an example of how this horrific behavior is happening.
Kate Osborne
Violent far-right protests in England and Northern Ireland erupted following the murder of three young people in Southport.
Axel Rudakubana, 17, was accused of the murder of three children at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport. The young defendant’s anonymity was lifted by a judge, who cited the importance of cracking down on the spread of misinformation online. Rudakubana turns 18 on Wednesday.
