Spellow Lane Library Hub Burned
Liverpool. Merseyside
Liverpool Libraries and Information Services:
Following the violent disorder last night at Spellow Hub Library @lpoolcouncil will be working hard to support residents and ensure service users have access to library services. More details to follow. Thanks to everyone for their messages of support for the Library Service.1
Rioters Attack Police During Vigil in U.K. for Southport Stabbing Victims: Misinformation spread over the identity of a suspect linked to the deaths of three children at a dance class.2
Liverpool city region mayor condemns 'thugs' who set fire to a library
Last year, we invested to transform it into a resource to help improve local people’s lives. Last night, ransacked by people who simply do not care for our area.
It was so much more than a library. This was not an attack on a building but an attack on our very community.
This is not protest. This is an insult to those families still grieving and survivors still struggling to make sense of Monday’s attack.
There can and must be consequences. They will feel the full force of the law.
Riots3—City clean-up begins after 'deplorable' riots
Rioters Attack Police During Vigil in U.K. for Southport Stabbing Victim. Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2024. https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/southport-stabbing-attack-vigil-riots-2f796b98?st=ijkukxhquiu43zq&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
City clean-up begins after 'deplorable' riots. BBC, August 4, 2024.
Start liking it. This will be used as a pretext for further crackdown on dissent.
"Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you."
Yikes! Strife, chaos, and destruction. Not good.