Jay McKenna
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So the FA picked a stadium without a valid safety certificate that contributed to the unlawful death of 96 fans. The Sun lied about the causes.
30 years on, The FA then say LFC can’t host an England game because of their Sun ban.
Good on
@LFC
sticking to the ban
Anfield loses England game over ban on Sun journalists... while Wolves will be able to demand huge compensation if Nuno Espirito Santo leaves for Arsenal |
@MattHughesDM
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This is beyond a joke now.
If the government want wealthy people to pay more for public services, then do your job and tax them properly. That way not just young working class men pay, but your rich donor mates and the billionaires.
All in it together ay....
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has called on Premier League footballers to donate a portion of their wages to struggling hospices, writes
@DanielHewittITV
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Fuck off, dickhead.
They’re welcome. You’re not.
First it was a taxi service into Dover.
Then it was free coaches and Four Star Hotels.
Now it’s guided tours of Anfield Stadium for illegal migrants.
When will this madness end?
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Who is England's greatest ever striker?
@andydunnmirror
@MikeWaltersMGM
@JamesNursey
@MirrorDarren
@NeilMcLeman
@MaddockMirror
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Should take it to CAS to appeal. Can be the second best week in City’s history
Just a reminder that
@YayaToure
didn't win any of the Player of the Year awards after this... 🤷♂️👇
#MCFC
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#ManCity
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And here was me worrying the season would end without a trophy
EXCLUSIVE: Premier League want clubs to play national anthem over Coronation weekend, along with various other acknowledgements. May put Liverpool (home on Sky v Brentford) in difficult spot given previous booing and depth of feeling. Story:
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Anyone close to Liverpool/supporter stuff knows it take a lot for them to comment, let alone show their strength of feeling.
This statements probably the most angry I’ve seen them publicly!
Liverpool Football Club acknowledges PGMOL’s admission of their failures last night.
It is clear that the correct application of the laws of the game did not occur, resulting in sporting integrity being undermined.
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The panel report said some could be saved.
The Prime Minister of the day said sorry on behalf of a nation.
Their inquests said they were unlawfully killed.
And yet the bastard in charge that day is ‘not guilty’
What’s the fucking point?
#JFT96
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‘Not low-skilled but essential to society’s well-being’
Jurgen Klopp’s programme notes from Wednesday night, about key workers and the real heroes of the pandemic
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Now go and ask your billionaire mates!
Warmly welcome this big-hearted decision from so many Premier League footballers to create
#PlayersTogether
to support NHS Charities. You are playing your part.
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I don’t know what I’m more embarrassed for them by:
- Singing it
- Doing signing actions
- Recording it
- Tweeting it
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One of the latest donations to support Sean Cox is from Jurgen Klopp himself. Do what you can and help Sean and his family.
Donate here
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Leave the European Cup to the elite level clubs lads....
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We had a baby born a few days before lockdown. We were told after 5 days we couldn’t have a midwife come in the house, have had no proper doctors appointments to check my other half or the baby and no family visits since lockdown.
Swerve the reasonable and justifiable
Taking care of your wife and young child is justifiable and reasonable, trying to score political points over it isn’t.
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If Gerrard isn’t driving home with his window down shouting 2-1, then he’s doing it all wrong...
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A reminder, with that rag of a newspaper turning on unions (again), is a further reminder - Don’t buy The S*n and don’t read The S*n
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Need an early return. RT if you can help 👍🏼
Hey there I'm looking for flight tickets : MCN - Lisboa, August 10 to 24 hopefully. RT if you can help 😘😘
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Nottingham Forest fans, who fortunately for them had the opposite end at Hillsborough in 1989, showing all their self-awareness there. Grim
"Always the victims" is the shout from a group of Forest fans. Some were already singing "Sign on" before the game had even started
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Welcome to the world Oscar James McKenna, my new mate.
@kimberlee_jones
is a hero. As are the incredible midwives, doctors and staff at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital.
Now for some paternity leave and family time.
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Just found my flag in me mums, after thinking I’d long lost it. Apt timing given the match tomorrow
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You won’t even even have enough people to hold up the scarf, let alone the flags.
(PS the flags are from a time when the club was actually in trouble. Not because some people were cryarsing about signing a midfielder)
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So the sending off stands even though neither of the bookings was a booking and the goal didn’t stand even though it was a goal 🤷🏻♂️
REVEALED
The Premier League's independent panel has ruled Diogo Jota shouldn't have been sent off in Liverpool's controversial 2-1 defeat at Spurs.
But not for the reason you think.
Plus: Why Brighton may feel aggrieved after their loss at Aston Villa.
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The managers more than got the right to talk about supporters creating an atmosphere and supporting the team.
But he might want to have a word internally with those in charge at the club if he wants to see the support he mentions more regularly - pricing, access to tickets etc
🗣 "If you are not in the right shape, give your ticket to somebody else."
𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 from Klopp, who had to urge fans in the Main Stand to help out with the atmosphere 😬
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Until he died, I’d never heard of Richard Green. His role in getting Benitez has been revealed and now that he was the first in the club to sound the alarm bells about Hicks and Gillett.
He deserves to be acknowledged for the part he has played in creating the LFC of today
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Hahaha. Wow. Put that in the trophy cabinet next to the two cups
@LFC
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Andy Burnham, once again, showing he’s in touch with where people are at and what’s needed.
Right through this crisis, he has been talking about what’s needed and been spot on.
He’s been calm and measured, reasonable and compromised when needed. And now he’s rightly angry.
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This by Peter Jones always gets me. It’s poignant and describes in words many of the mixed emotions people feel and no doubt felt.
‘And the sun shines now’
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Guessing no public comment from City. But private briefings full of ‘whatabout’, mentioning the coachi incident and that say they think it’s the fault of Klopp provoking things. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so grim
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You hear of 20,000 tickets in an 80,000 seater stadium for LFC supporters and it sounds bad.
Looking at the stadium map is worse. Before you even worry about price
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The owners of the club have thrown Klopp under a bus here. They should be answering these questions
#MNF
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If you’re tempted, at any point, to sing about or mock those who died at Hillsborough, or Munich, or any other disaster then please read this
It’s not funny and the hurt to those families and survivors is very real
Well in Ste Kelly &
@AndyMitten
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So after 11 (eleven!!) years of being involved, it’s time I stepped down from
@spiritofshankly
and let others continue the work.
I’ve genuinely loved it, even the hard parts, and learnt a lot.
Up the union! 🆘
Ahead of our AGM, we would like to thank those committee members standing down.
Jay McKenna, Jon-Paul Hill, Jackie Taylor and Tommy Keiner - 👏 for all you have done speaking up for, and helping, supporters.
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Lighting up buildings, the snide songs, us playing poor and winning like that, the smoke bombs, the celebrations, the heads falling off on Twitter. It all just makes it so much better. Nice one, Everton 👍🏼
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Imagine in response to “Justice for the 96” we got told “No, justice for everyone”
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Comes the match once and already wants Everton to get beat. Is right
Great going to
@LFC
today and an impressive display against
@SouthamptonFC
. But difficult listening to
@johnmcdonnellMP
and
@DanCardenMP
go on all game about how good Liverpool are this season. Hopefully Arsenal can keep them in sight by beating Everton tomorrow.
#LIVSOU
#Lab18
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Good this from Roy Hodgson. Particularly this on the NHS and taxes
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For the first time in my lifetime, the reds have a chance at the league and the European Cup going into the last game of the season.
For the first time in a longtime, everyone is pulling in the same direction and on the same page.
We should enjoy days like these ✊
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And not a single pint was lashed
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Every year, there’s a thread on a footy forum bumped, from a friend of Andrew Sefton who died at Hillsborough. That post here and the below story from his family are heartbreaking.
And they should make anyone who mocks the disaster stop
As part of our series remembering the 97, an interview with the sister and brother-in-law of Andrew Sefton, a Spurs fan who lost his life at Hillsborough.
Thank you to them for sharing their and Andrew’s story.
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There seems to be a characterisation of those in London as ‘football fans’
They aren’t like me and the football fans I know
The football fans I know watch football, celebrate difference and look out for each other
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Just picturing the getting to Baku conversations
“Yeah mate, I’m going. We’re doing a night in Tehran, then onto Baku. Back home via Baghdad. We were going via Syria but that’s an extra £20”
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Having watched all of
#Anne
, I hope it shows that as well as taking the lives of the 97, it irrevocably changed the lives of so many more. Anne was one of those, and this showed it.
Well done to
@ksampsonwriter
and others for telling a very difficult story so well
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Fair play to United. They’re wanting to make themselves heard by their owners and they’ve gone big. Good on them
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ITV: “very proud of Britain Get Talking, our campaign to encourage us all to look after our mental health”
Also ITV, when a woman says how the Royal Family made them feel:
‘They’ve trashed everything the Queen has worked so hard for and we’re supposed to believe they’re compassionate?’
‘They felt they were trashed and lied about.’
@piersmorgan
and
@susannareid100
discuss Harry and Meghan’s explosive Oprah interview.
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This is brilliant. A man that knows his position and ultimate responsibility. Been a long time since it felt manager, team, and supporters were in such alignment. A holy trinity
“Jurgen Klopp hopes contract can help lift Liverpool after General Election”
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The last few times I’ve had to tell someone my address, they think I’ve been taking the piss 🤷🏻♂️
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“Imagine the uproar and weight of the law, if 96 coppers lay dead on the floor”
The court has ruled that there is no case to answer for three defendants in relation to actions following the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.
We understand how difficult this result will be for those who lost loved ones.
Full statement:
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If your immediate worry about the Anfield Road news is about what it might mean for tickets and not what it could mean for all the workers affected, then I think you need to have a little think again
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The danger of all the ‘what about’ shouts aimed at UEFA/Sky/PL/FA etc is it leaves us in danger of doing nothing about something that is much worse
Is there some hypocrisy? Yes
But if the changes happen, you never get to fix the existing problems because it’s all done, forever
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It’s going to be boss when his kids say they want to go to uni in Liverpool and come back quoting Shankly, socialism and everyone’s views on Thatcher.
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This is the latest example of the players getting it, realising the power they have and bringing them and the fans closer together.
Great to see
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has made a young Liverpool fan's dream come true by giving him tickets to the Champions League final. Ox is class.
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Imagine using a global health crisis to make a tribal football point.
Never mind one as misguided and snide as this. Grim
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Really good to see this by chance today. No fan fare, no media, just one of the owners and the MD bringing a donation and stopping to ask how it was going. Well in
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Hahaha. Yeah, ok mate. Good one
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Be like Mo
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It’s utterly astonishing that a QC could peddle this lie, let alone do it on national radio and not be challenged about it.
Jonathan Goldberg peddling UTTER LIES to Adrian Chiles who just lets the lies play out. You wonder why we’ve bothered all this with “help” like this from supposedly trusted broadcasters.
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Into the last game of every competition with the chance to take home the trophy.
Let’s enjoy Sunday whatever happens
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Not sure what’s better - the
@unisontweets
magazine not knowing Everton exist, or their correction
#6Times
😂
Give that editor a pay rise!
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Imagine what Amazon paying proper taxes and decent wages could do, ay....
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Well amazingly
@kimberlee_jones
, having put up with me constantly being on here and moaning about footy/politics/footy politics/life/everything in real life too, still said yes. 🤷🏻♂️
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A significant date today...
12 years since the founding meeting of
@spiritofshankly
. People who came together and made a lasting difference.
Those 12 years seem like a lifetime and like it was yesterday. Grateful for all it’s helped me do
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“When all the lights go out forever,
somewhere near the end of time,
the noise will pass and the dust will settle, and you'll be on my mind”
Thinking of all those who lost loved ones and who had their lives changed forever that day
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BBC 5 Live doing a ‘both sides’ of the argument about The S*n and using Kelvin MacKenzie is utterly tone deaf.
Are you forgetting the stories he has published, his ‘Truth’ headlines, and the hurt still caused? That papers got form for this because he did it!
Beyond grim
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Fuck off. Seriously you should delete this. SHANKLY, Hillsborough or our club aren’t something you get to appropriate and use to make whatever shit, snide point you’re trying to make
Congratulations to the great people of
#Liverpool
to the memory of the socialist miner
#BillShankley
to the fallen
#96
to those who fought for justice for them and to the Liverpool dockers. No
#Isra
ël flags on the Cup!
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Fourteen years since the meeting in the backroom of The Sandon that created
@spiritofshankly
Given the announcement last year on a supporters board, mad to think how far the union has come (and how long ago it all was!)
Up the union!
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‘Fan-led’ 🤷🏻♂️
All members of the football family will be given a voice as the fan-led review panel, chaired by
@Tracey_Crouch
, is announced
@HuddlestonNigel
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@OliverDowden
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Is there any evidence at all that supporters would ignore guidelines?
Have supporters actually been spoken to?
No.
And yet there’s assumptions made on hypotheticals that does no one any favours
“It’s a non-starter.”
Mayor of Liverpool
@mayor_anderson
tells me Prem League plan to resume season must be abandoned because many fans will congregate outside Anfield to celebrate title, even if matches at neutral venue. Says LFC should be declared champs & season ended
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The S*n Political Editor & so called 'LFC fan' makes light of the boycott of that rag, when someone commented on other fans
#DontBuyTheSun
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I know the circumstances are crap, but seeing Liverpool come out at as Champions made me feel like a big kid
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There’s a concerning growth in conspiracy theorist/Covid denial in Liverpool fed by social media.
From ‘Save Our Children’, 5G through to Covid Denial and ‘freedom’ that’s borderline right wing/extreme.
Don’t know how or who needs to act but something needs to stop it
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What a second half.
All the more enjoyable when you’ve had Maddison being a cry arse all night and them singing ‘Feed the scousers’
Up the reds
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Liverpool away end singing ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’ there. Colours nailed to the mast.
#VoteLabour12December
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Welcome to world Lula Rae McKenna
Once again,
@kimberlee_jones
is a hero and I’m very lucky. The staff at the Liverpool Women’s are once again a credit to the city and NHS.
Last time we did this, the world went into lockdown so it should be different this time!
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Seeing as the government isn’t issuing reasoning on its decisions on tiers, people might speculate.
Why have they ‘negotiated’ with Lancashire and ‘implemented’ in Merseyside? 🤔
Merseyside. Lancashire.
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Some in the audience actually jeered being concerned about the poorest people around the world. Fucking hell
#ITVDebate
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For the price of each clubs suggested donation to Scudamore, each PL could pay for a 4G pitch for local kids to use. Surely a more fitting legacy?
#ScudamoreFarewellGift
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Fair play to Seamus Coleman 👏
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Good on Ian Blackford.
Calling a liar a liar gets you thrown out. Being a liar, doesn’t.
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I’m firmly against a Super League so this is a good push back on those clubs.
But the hypocrisy of UEFA, FA, the PL and others talking of ‘solidarity’ and criticising others ‘self interest’
A plague on all their houses
And now joint statement from UEFA, PL, FA, Spanish and Italian leagues committing to fight the formation of a European Super League and thanking clubs who haven’t signed up. This is a seismic moment for domestic and European football.
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It’s a pity he didn’t apply this sound reasoning when he repeated the lies, years after 1989, that The S*n printed
Brian Clough on Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch in 1989
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I’m made up to say that I’ve been appointed the
@TUCNorthWest
Regional Secretary
Now to get on with the job!
Congratulations to
@JayMcKenna87
on his appointment as Regional Secretary for
@TUCNorthWest
Jay’s worked in the region for many years and is looking forward to getting started working with our unions 🤝
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Boss this photo. Whatever people say about us now, or did back then, we stood up and won
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Fans who go to matches and supporters of clubs involved will.
It’s a sport not a tv entertainment show
Nobody is ever going to want 2-legged Champions League elimination rounds again.
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Sorry seems to be the hardest word...
Liverpool Football Club can confirm that our involvement in proposed plans to form a European Super League has been discontinued.
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Hahaha. Go and have a sit down in a nice quiet room for a bit mate
🗣️ "Everyone in this country supports Liverpool, the media and everyone... Our destiny is in our hands, this is important."
👀 Pep Guardiola's response to
@ManCity
's emphatic 5-0 win over Newcastle.
🎤
@CarrieBrownTV
#beINPL
#MCINEW
#MCFC
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They’re not counter protestors, as there was no protest at the Cenotaph to counter.
UPDATE: A group of counter protestors who left Whitehall and moved into Chinatown confronted and threw missiles at officers who tried to engage with them.
Additional officers have been deployed to the area to identify, locate and deal with those involved. Our priority is keeping
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