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‘It’s OK, everyone else is doing it’: how do we deal with role violence on social media played in UK riots?
Among those swiftly convicted and sentenced last week for their part in the racist rioting was Bobby Shirbon, who had left his 18th birthday party at a bingo hall in Hartlepool to join the mob roaming the town’s streets, targeting houses thought to be …