Alex Thomson, chief correspondent and presenter at Britain’s state-owned Channel 4 News network, has deleted videos he posted over the weekend showing “Mobs of Asian men” attacking white people amid protests over the mass stabbing of multiple young girls, allegedly by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England.
While Southport suspect Axel Muganwa Rudakubana, the son of Rwandan migrants, is not known to be Muslim and is not himself a first-generation immigrant, protests over the mass stabbing have been flaring near mosques and hotels hosting illegal aliens, with demonstrators tying the mass stabbing to broader failures of mass migration and integration.
Some protestors have been involved in vandalism and clashes with police, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer branding them “far-right thugs” and promising a draconian crackdown—but armed Muslim counter-demonstrators are also roaming the streets, with the police adopting a much less aggressive stance towards them.
Thomson posted a video from Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, on X (formerly Twitter) showing “Mobs of Asian men attacking white men” and “More Asian men attacking lone white individuals.” He suggested these attacks “appear[ed] to be in response to earlier violence meted out by overwhelmingly white anti- immigrant [sic] marchers.”
In Britain, “Asian” typically refers to people from South Asia, chiefly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and, in recent years, Afghanistan, rather than the Far East.
By Monday morning, all of Thomson’s posts had been deleted. However, similar videos he shared showing white people clashing with police or being arrested are still online.
Other X users have preserved copies of Thomson’s videos of white people being assaulted. As of the time of publication, it is unclear whether or not Channel 4 will allow them to remain up.
