Though the expected far-right riots failed to materialise in much of England and Northern Ireland last night, the horrific attacks earlier this week have still left people asking what it will take for the new government to meaningfully protect people of colour from these mobs of racists.
And while Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has repeatedly made promises of tougher policing, the solution to ending the violence does not lie in increasing the number of officers on the streets. How can it, when they have long been the ones carrying out the violence against us?
In the past week, we have seen and heard reports of people of colour being attacked, including with acid. People have been dragged from their cars, mosques have been surrounded and damaged, Muslim businesses destroyed, people’s homes graffitied, smashed and attacked, and hotels housing refugees and asylum seekers set alight.
