People told to stay at home due to unrest in Harehills area of West Yorkshire city

A police car was flipped on to its side after unrest broke out in Leeds on Thursday evening, and local people were advised to stay at home.

Footage on social media appeared to show people throwing objects at the police vehicle before it was pushed over in Harehills, just east of the city centre.

Videos posted on X appeared to show vehicles on fire including a bus.

By 10.30pm, police had left the scene but a helicopter remained in the sky above Harehills.

A bus was set alight on Foundry Approach and was still burning with flames towering above the red brick houses and thick black smoke could be seen for miles. . The occasional bang could be heard from the blaze as people seemingly threw explosives, and small crowds of people ran screaming each time an explosion occurred.

Another smaller fire in a road junction on Harehills Lane was kept alight, with people throwing debris on to it.

  • lettruthoutEnglish
    14•4 months ago

    The article doesn’t even try to explain why people were doing this. What’s the underlying issue there?

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝OPEnglish
      6•4 months ago

      It does, albeit vaguely:

      Officers were called to an incident at an address in Luxor Street at 5pm on Thursday where they found an “ongoing disturbance” involving agency workers and children.

      More people started to attend the location and the agency workers and children were taken to a safe place.

      A crowd started to gather and more officers were requested to attend the area where “pockets of disorder” were emerging.

      It might take a while for the details to emerge.

    • @aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
      6•4 months ago

      Apparently social services forcibly removed the children from the family, which their father says was done unjustly and based on false claims of parental abuse. That’s according to Twitter, so the details are still somewhat up in the air.