How Asian men in a BMW were attacked during violence in Hull.

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How ****** men in a BMW were attacked during ********* in Hull.

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Men threw bricks at the car while another performed the ***** salute

Of all the violent scenes in *** towns and cities at the weekend, one of the most shocking happened in Hull – when an ****** crowd of white men surrounded and attacked a car with men of ****** heritage inside.

Videos of the incident shared on social media show the crowd charging towards a silver BMW and forcing open its doors, and attacking those inside.

People can be heard on the videos shouting ******* slurs and saying “get them”.

BBC Verify has analysed social media footage of the incident – and what happened in Hull in the run up.

Swarm of ****** men

The ******* on the BMW happened to the north-west of Hull city centre on Saturday afternoon.

Analysis of social media videos by BBC Verify suggests the vehicle and its occupants were set upon at about 16:45.

In one video, large ****** plumes of smoke can be seen rising into the sky. The person filming moves down Hall Street and towards a car park – where a car is ablaze and a car ***** is ringing out.

Then the BMW swings backwards around the corner from Milky Street, as it tries to escape a large mob.

The car is trapped on the curb and is quickly swarmed by ****** men, several of whom are masked and using what look like screwdrivers to smash the car’s tail lights and to try to prise open the car doors and grab the people inside.

Men can be seen throwing bricks and a shopping trolley at the car. Another man can be seen performing the ***** salute.

In the background of one of the videos, you can hear someone shout, “get them lads, get the [expletive], smash that ***** up”.

Footage of the crowd attacking the silver BMW and chasing an occupant, on Saturday afternoon

A man in a St George’s flag T-shirt can be seen trying to smash the BMW’s windows. Using facial recognition software and social media profiles, we have identified him as John Honey.

He appears in other videos showing looting later in the day in the city centre.

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with violent disorder, three counts of robbery, two counts of burglary and ********* damage, and is in custody. Humberside Police said on Monday afternoon that a total of 28 other people had been arrested.

Around the car, a man with a large rucksack on his back, opens the driver’s door and appears to hit the driver several times.

About 10 seconds after the car is trapped, a passenger manages to scramble out, having lost one shoe. He is then chased by a masked man with a metal bar.

The video then pans right and riot police can be seen approaching. This appears to trigger the mob to scatter.

The driver and a passenger who fled the car are then seen unharmed about 20m (66ft) away from the *******.

We don’t know who they are and it is unclear whether any other people were travelling in the car with them.

The camera then pans across the chaotic scene to show there are other cars on ***** with thick ****** smoke filling the air.

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Another man BBC Verify has identified as being present at the incident – using facial recognition tools and confirmed by comparison with social media profiles – is Connor Londesborough. He can be seen in footage standing next to the car and speaking to some of the attackers but not joining in the *******.

A few days before the protest he had shared a post from the National Defence League – an anti-immigrant online group – that read ‘‘prepared for peace, ready for war”.

It has

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for kidnap, arson and robbery.

He told the BBC he had been present at the protest in Victoria Square earlier, and said he was only at the car ******* incident to stop others from attacking the car.

‘Try and be as sober as you can be’

Several hours earlier, crowds had gathered in Hull city centre.

Online posters with the words “enough is enough” had been shared calling for people to meet in Victoria Square at midday.

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suggests this had been initially organised by “Hull Patriotic Protestors”, a private group which lists a number of concerns including “the influx of ******** invaders in our city” and “the economic decline and financial neglect of our City”.

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advert asks for attendees to “try and be as sober as you can be” and that “it is important to remember this is not about the colour of a person’s skin”.

It says the event will start with a vigil for the three ****** murdered in Southport.

Footage of the protest shows a man delivering an anti-immigrant speech and a counter-demonstration close by. The two groups are kept separate by a row of police officers.

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‘Send them home’

At about 13:15, a BBC colleague saw members of the Victoria Square crowd five-minutes walk away outside the Royal Hotel, where asylum seekers are reportedly housed. He says he saw several throw projectiles at the hotel – damaging windows.

In videos we have analysed, a large group of people can be seen behind metal barriers in front of the hotel shouting chants of “send them home” and “get them out” in front of riot police. Bottles, flares and bricks were thrown at officers.

Later, at 15:33, right-wing activist Tommy Robinson,

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that the hotel housed “unvetted migrant men at the taxpayers expense”.

Shoes burning outside Shoezone in Hull city centre

In the hours after the BMW was surrounded and attacked, crowds would once again form in the centre of the city – and looting would start.

People gathered on Jameson Street. The earliest looting videos on social media we have identified are from 18:38 and show the O2 phone shop being ransacked.

We have also seen footage of looting in Shoezone, where a large pile of shoes was brought out and set on *****, Greggs the bakers and cosmetics retailer Lush.

Additional reporting by Richard Irvine-Brown and Paul Brown

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