15 Police Officers Injured During Violent Unionist Riot in Belfast Over Post-Brexit Trade - Video © REUTERS / CLODAGH KILCOYNE
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Local unionists and loyalists have in recent weeks expressed staunch opposition to the Northern Ireland Protocol, a part of the newly concluded Brexit trade deal, which envisages checks in the Irish Sea for goods crossing from and into the rest of the UK.
Fifteen police officers have been injured after being attacked by rioters hurtling stones, fireworks, and bottles in a loyalist area of Belfast, police said.
The behaviour, slammed by the city s District Commander Chief Superintendent Simon Walls as appalling , ensued after four nights of disturbances in the Waterside area of Londonderry. Last night s standoff originally started in the S
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