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LONDON \u2014 The United Kingdom<\/a> woke up Sunday morning to city streets covered in debris and smoldering rubbish as a weekend of far-right, anti-immigration demonstrations \u2014 stoked by conspiracy theories spread on social media \u2014 erupted into violence in seven cities across the nation.<\/p>\n

Police arrested at least 100 people, and riot police wearing helmets and holding shields came out in force as Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> pledged to take action against \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Saturday, groups in Leeds waving St. George\u2019s Cross flags, England\u2019s national flag regularly flown by far-right groups, shouted \u201cMuslims off our streets,\u201d pairing it with a slur suggesting they were criminal child abusers. In the city of Hull, rioters threw bottles and smashed a window at a hotel housing asylum-seekers as demonstrators clashed with police.<\/p>\n

What started as targeted anti-immigration demonstrations quickly descended into directionless disorder. A library in Liverpool, reopened in 2023 as an \u201ceducation to employment\u201d service for people of all abilities, was set ablaze.<\/p>\n

One police officer in the city was hit on the head with a chair and another kicked and knocked off his motorcycle. The police force responsible for the region has confirmed that two officers were taken to the hospital with injuries.<\/p>\n

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