Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "Southport riot eyewitness criticises 'outsiders' spreading violence and mayhem | LBC" video.

Though its claimed the rioters were not locals, of the 4 men arrested last night two were from Southport and two others were from nearby, so they were in fact locals.
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@curiositykilledkat1 According to news paper reports the man arrested in the area was from Wigan and he had a flick knife in his possession not a machete. The machete guy was another person altogether, you can't mistake a small flick knife with a machete. So all four arrested after the riot were fairly local people, scouse accents or not.
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