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Yasmin Weaver ~ Natasha Blank (Junejo) ~ Sarah Childs
More than a hundred incidents of racial abuse and hate crime have been reported since the UK voted to leave the European Union. Many of the alleged perpetrators cited the decision to leave the EU explicitly. One video, purportedly filmed in Hackney on the morning after the referendum, shows a man arguing with someone in a car before yelling: "Go back to your country."
Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party. Photo: AP The first casualty of the climate of fear, hate and xenophobia whipped up in the United Kingdom throughout the Brexit campaign by those campaigning to leave the EU was Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a far-right extremist shouting 'Britain First' as he shot and stabbed her to death.
Reports of racist incidents and even hate crimes across the U.K. are on the rise after Thursday's vote, leading to concern that the divisive campaign over leaving the European Union has emboldened certain extremist elements of society. More than 100 incidents "of racial abuse and hate crime" have been reported since Thursday's vote, according to the Independent .
LONDON - Reports of racial abuse on Britain's streets have spiked following the country's bitterly fought Brexit referendum, campaigners say. More than 100 alleged hate crimes have been brought to the attention of the Muslim Council of Britain since Friday's result.
Hatbrotten ökar i Storbritannien efter valet. Nu har tre kvinnor startat Facebookgruppen "Worrying signs" där människor som trakasserats kan dela med sig av sina erfarenheter. På kort tid har gruppen fått tiotusentals medlemmar. - Ingen har velat prata om vad som håller på att hända, men nu tvingas myndigheterna öppna ögonen, säger initiativtagaren Natasha Blank.
Since the EU referendum results revealed the UK voted to leave, people have been compiling reports of racism on social media. A number of incidents where people have experienced hostility because of the colour of their skin and their ethnic background have been shared online.
On Tuesday night I was buying milk at a Tesco Express store in South East London when three drunk men began racially abusing staff. "You're p***ing me off speaking in your language," one of them shouted. "This is Britain. Speak English. You're in Britain."
Critics have attempted to shut down a Facebook group which highlights racist encounters amid a spike in hate crimes after the EU referendum. Sarah Childs, 32, set up the Worrying Signs page with two university friends to show highlight a surge in xenophobic incidents since Britain voted to quit the EU.
Hate speech against minorities by white nationalists appears to be on the rise in the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union. The referendum has sent shock waves through global politics and economic markets, and has left countless Britons fearful of backlash brought on by the move.
A woman in hijab was in Nottingham when a man she described as a "thug" approached her on Monday afternoon. "I'm going to need you to lift your dress to see if that's a bomb you have hiding under there," he told her. She is pregnant.
A Facebook group set up to record incidents of racial abuse in the UK has been flooded with a disturbing number of posts. People of European origin and BAME British people have been increasingly targeted by racists that have come out of the woodwork, seemingly mobilised by the Brexit mandate.
A Facebook group has been set up to encouraging people to share alleged incidents of racism or xenophobia in the wake of the referendum vote for Britain to leave the European Union. The "Worrying Signs" group invites people to share experiences and concerns and to post pictures and screen grabs relating to any alleged incidents.
Not long after the Brexit vote last week, The Guardian reported that a number of people had reported racist incidents believed to be fuelled by the result of the EU referendum, including alleged racist graffiti and cards reading "no more Polish vermin" posted through letterboxes.
A Facebook group recording incidents of racism taking place in the wake of the EU referendum has attracted 16,000 followers in the week since it was set up a week ago.
LONDON (AP) - An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
For its thousands of followers, the Facebook page Worrying Signs makes for uncomfortable reading about post-referendum Britain. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union, social media users have shared stories of xenophobia, with reports of people being told to "go home" or worse.