The message called for people to wear balaclavas and gloves.
A call to rob a sports shop this afternoon on Oxford Street, London’s high street, which went viral via Snapchat and TikTok, led to hundreds of people gathering outside JD Sports responding to the call to ‘rob JD Sports’ .
The message called for people to wear balaclavas and gloves.
“Don’t come if you can’t run“, he wrote.
This was followed by the intervention of the police, who, alerted to the looting plans, had been deployed in the area and clashes broke out between the police and youths. Many stores locked their doors with customers inside. Nine people were arrested.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan had called on Londoners not to participate in the “absurdities” circulating on TikTok.
“We cannot accept the kind of anarchy we see in some American cities settling on the streets of the UK“, British Home Secretary Suella Braverman wrote on Twitter (X).
“Those responsible must be found and imprisoned».
Source :Skai
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