Ethnic minority shop owners targeted in UK riots fear more attacks
Al Jazeera
Several businesses were targeted in a wave of unrest that unleashed violent racism onto British streets.
As rioters went on the attack in dozens of British towns and cities recently, some targeted businesses belonging to ethnic minority Britons.
The unrest began in the aftermath of a fatal stabbing attack in Southport that killed three young girls, which agitators misleadingly blamed on a Muslim migrant. As disinformation about the suspect travelled at pace online, angry crowds took to the streets to abuse migrants and Muslims at random. Black and Asian Britons were also targeted.
On August 3, as many brought chaos to the northern English city of Liverpool, which is near Southport, Ardalan Othman watched in real time as his convenience shop was looted and vandalised.
His security cameras filmed the incident.
In one scene, a group of men steal boxes of cigarettes. Some take expensive items like vapes. A couple spend their efforts trying to break into the till. But some are seen placing singular bars of chocolate into their rucksacks.
