A well-trained police dog delivered instant karma to a drunken protester who was taunting officers and shouting “I pay your wages” during last night’s riots in Hartlepool.
The shocking knife massacre in Southport The attack that claimed the lives of three young girls has sparked violence in parts of Britain amid false speculation about the identity of the suspect.
But there was a comical moment in a video of the riots in Murray Street, Hartlepool, when a protester who began to provoke riot police officers by filming them and sarcastically shouting “okay, okay, okay!” finally got his comeuppance.
In bizarre scenes he is seen squatting and dancing before slapping his bottom in an attempt to rile up officers.
He and another protester are then seen walking away as a police dog begins to bark at them. But then the protester reappears in the footage with a beer can, this time pointing it aggressively at a police officer’s face.
When his friend is beaten with a baton, he confronts a new group of riot police and shouts: “Don’t touch me. I pay your salaries.”
When a police dog starts jumping and barking at him, he tries to joke, saying “give your dog something to drink,” before the animal lunges at him and grabs his shorts with its sharp teeth.
The protester could be seen provoking police officers, shouting “I pay your salaries” and dancing in front of them.
While confronting another police officer, the police dog begins barking and approaches him.
As the protester tries to escape, the police dog begins to pull down his shorts as other activists try to flee.
The riots are the latest to erupt amid false claims that the suspect, who turns 18 in just six days, was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a boat, which has fuelled unrest in Southport, London, Manchester and Hartlepool.
Axel Rudakubana, 17, named and photographed as a suspect for the first time today, appeared in court charged with the three murders of six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar.
The teenager is also accused of attempting to kill eight children, along with dance teacher Leanne Lucas, 35, and businessman John Hayes.
Rudakubana, who is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon, was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents in 2006 before his family moved to the quiet Lancashire village of Banks, a 15-minute drive from Southport, in 2013.
The Hartlepool video bears a resemblance to footage seen at the Southport riots, where a thug was hit in the head – and then in the crotch – by bricks thrown by fellow activists.
Cleveland Police made 11 arrests in the Hartlepool riots last night. Protesters hurled abuse and bottles at officers and set a police car on fire.
Violence also spread to London, where 111 people were arrested at a protest under the slogan “Enough is enough.”
To his horror, the police dog lunges at him and bites him on the rear.
He tries to escape, but the dog grabs him tightly and starts pulling him back.
The man’s shorts begin to fall down as the dog shows no signs of letting go, as protesters look on.
This comes after Sir Keir Starmer today announced plans to treat rioters as football hooligans in the wake of violence on Britain’s streets.
Speaking at a Downing Street press conference, the Prime Minister condemned the “senseless minority” that has caused nights of chaos since Monday’s tragedy.
He attacked a “gang of thugs” who were travelling by train and bus to Southport and attacked police.
There were also riots in London, Hartlepool and Manchester, leading to dozens of arrests.
As part of a crackdown on organised rioting and the “far right”, the prime minister said a new “national capability” in police forces would tackle violent disorder.
This will allow forces to share information (such as increases in train ticket sales that could be linked to unrest) and deploy facial recognition technology.
Police chiefs will also be encouraged to restrict the movement of known troublemakers in a similar way to how football banning orders are used to prevent hooligans from attending matches.