via mirror.co.uk:
The ringleaders responsible for the riot on Oxford Street must be “hunted down and locked up”, the Home Secretary has demanded.
Violence erupted between hundreds of teenagers and police on Wednesday provoked by viral TikTok videos encouraging youngsters to loot stores. Shocking pictures show hundreds of people gathered on the busy street, swinging punches at officers. Several shops in the central London street pulled down their shutters shortly before the mob was due to descend at 3pm, trapping several shoppers inside, to avoid the planned violence.
Traffic was also brought to a halt briefly while mounted police and security personnel tried to disperse crowds, with several people eventually being arrested by police officers. This morning Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called on those responsible to be hunted down and prosecuted.
She said in a video posted on social media: “We cannot allow the kind of lawlessness seen in some American cities to come to the streets of the UK. The police have my full backing to do whatever necessary to ensure public order.