Oxford Street: Suella Braverman tells police to hunt down culprits

Those liable for the upset witnessed successful London's Oxford Street country should beryllium "hunted down and locked up", the location caput says.

Suella Braverman said connected X: "We cannot let the benignant of lawlessness seen successful immoderate American cities to travel to the streets of the UK."

On Wednesday, baton-wielding constabulary clashed with dozens of radical portion officers connected horseback dispersed crowds.

The Metropolitan Police said 9 arrests were made.

The upset came aft societal media videos urged radical to crook up and origin disruption connected Oxford Street.

The Met said it had handed retired 34 dispersal orders, which alteration constabulary to exclude radical from the area. A wider dispersal bid covering a ample country of the West End is successful effect until 07:00 BST connected Friday.

Mrs Braverman added: "The constabulary person my afloat backing to bash immoderate indispensable to guarantee nationalist order. Those liable indispensable beryllium hunted down and locked up.

"I expect thing little from the Metropolitan Police and person requested a afloat incidental report."

There was a ample constabulary beingness successful Oxford Street connected Wednesday afternoon, with mounted officers and constabulary vans connected the roadworthy and connected broadside streets.

Young radical gathered successful groups, mixing successful with tourists and shoppers - with immoderate filming oregon looking connected bemused.

Some shops successful Oxford Street and Regent Street closed their barriers arsenic attempts were made to get inside. At those shops that stayed open, information guards stood astatine the entrances deciding who could spell in.

Inside Oxford Circus Tube station, officers were stopping young men astatine the summons barriers to talk to them.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan had urged radical who had seen the videos connected societal media not to spell to Oxford Street, saying: "Do not let yourself to beryllium sucked into an country that could beryllium a high-crime area."

By the evening, dozens of young radical were seen making their mode on Shaftesbury Avenue successful the West End.

A McDonald's edifice and a acquisition store were concisely attacked and respective fights broke retired among those gathered, portion the proprietor of a convenience store successful Soho fought disconnected astir a twelve young radical helium said had stormed his store trying to bargain items.

As a effect of patrols crossed the day, the Met Police said 1 idiosyncratic was arrested connected suspicion of going equipped to steal, 1 connected suspicion of assaulting a constabulary officer, 1 for a nationalist offence and 4 others connected suspicion of breaching the dispersal order.

The unit added 2 radical were besides arrested successful Essex for conspiracy to perpetrate robbery "following online societal media posts".

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