A 17 year old male launched a frenzied knife attack on a group of young children, who were at an craft and dance event, and ends up killing 3 children aged 6, 7 and 9 and viciously injuring many others including people who tried to protect the children.

Regardless of his ethnicity and religious beliefs, I can see why people of Southport were suitable outraged and felt the need to act the way they did.

Further the article itself points out the two tiered approach by government which may explain why people are feeling even more aggrieved in this instance.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper branded the outbreak of violence as a “a total disgrace,” saying: “It is so appalling to now see those same police facing violent attacks from thugs on the streets who have no respect for a grieving community.” But some were quick to note the difference in the Home Secretary’s tone following the Southport riots to during Roma riots in Leeds just five days earlier, in which she did not refer to the rioters as “thugs” but merely “individuals.” Lord Goldsmith, a former government minister, opined it was right to be strong on disorder but said Cooper’s statement “couldn’t contrast more starkly with Home Office Ministers’ reactions to the Manchester riots where violent thugs demanded instant justice ‘or else’ & where Ministers bent over backwards to explain that they ‘understood’ the anger.” He asked: “Why has the Home Office response to these two events been so different? Can they not see how this feeds the narrative of a two tier approach and drives people to the far right? It is extraordinarily shortsighted and unwise”.