Police blast water cannons at protesters amid unrest over stabbing in Belfast

[Coventina]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Police blasted water cannons Wednesday at protesters in Northern Ireland who set small fires and hurled bricks, rocks and bottles at them during a second night of violence over a brutal stabbing on a Belfast street.

Demonstrators wearing masks tore bricks from the walls outside homes and smashed sidewalks with sledgehammers to toss at riot police. In one place, the unruly crowd used sections of a dismantled a picket fence to take cover on the street.

The clashes with police came several hours after a 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court charged with attempted murder in a stabbing attack that left a man seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence.

Hadi Alodid, 30, was ordered held in jail after appearing by video in Belfast Magistrates' Court, where a detective said he blinded Stephen Ogilvie in the left eye during the knife attack. He was also charged with possessing a knife and threatening to kill a radiographer while being treated for a hand injury after the assault.

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/11/g-s1-127401/uk-anti-immigration-protests-belfast

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Horrific.
What prompts someone to walk up to a random stranger and stab them in the eye?

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Those are not just anti immigrant protestors

They are anti Black and Brown people. They were always going to explode - the stabber just lit the match.

Contrast that with Trayvon Martin. We (Black Americans) didn't run around beating up non-black people over the outrage of this murder - and the outrage of a verdict.