Aussies/Sidneysiders showing their ig’nant side as racial violence erupts:
Thousands of young white men have converged on Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, and attacked people of Arabic and Mediterranean background.
Police and ambulance officers were pelted with beer cans and bottles, and an ambulance was attacked. Several people were injured in the alcohol-fuelled violence, and at least 12 were arrested. The authorities have condemned the outbreak of racial violence as “not the Australian way”. By Sunday night, the violence appeared to have spread to a second beach suburb, Maroubra, where men armed with baseball bats reportedly attacked cars. And police said a man was stabbed in the back in south Sydney in what media reports said appeared to be further racial violence.
The clashes follow assaults a week ago on two volunteer lifeguards at the southern Sydney beach, reportedly by youths of Arabic and Mediterranean backgrounds. Mobile phone text messages began circulating after the beatings, encouraging people to retaliate on Sunday and employing racial slurs.
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