{"id":2056,"date":"2013-01-12T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/fresh-clashes-amid-flags-protest\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T16:08:00","slug":"fresh-clashes-amid-flags-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/12\/fresh-clashes-amid-flags-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh clashes amid flags protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"caption body-narrow-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/27ec65245053_albertbridgeroadlandrovers.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"171\" alt=\"The police moved in to separate loyalists and nationalists at Albertbridge Road\" \/><span class=\"c1\">The police moved in to separate loyalists and nationalists at Albertbridge Road<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"introduction\" id=\"story_continues_1\">Loyalists and nationalists have clashed in east Belfast after a union flag protest in the city centre on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It happened as loyalists returned from a demonstration at city hall, against the council&#8217;s decision to limit the number of days the union flag is flown.<\/p>\n<p>Rocks and fireworks were thrown at Albertbridge Road, near the nationalist Short Strand. Police used water cannon and fired at least one plastic bullet.<\/p>\n<p>Four officers were hurt in Castlereagh Street. Two were taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cross-head\">&#8216;Sustained attack&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The trouble began about 14:30 GMT on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Riot police intervened to separate the crowds at the Short Strand interface but the trouble is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>A BBC reporter in the area said officers have moved the loyalist crowd back from the interface, but police are &#8220;coming under sustained attack with bricks, bottles and fireworks&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, nearly 1,000 people took part in a flag protest at Belfast City Hall to protest.<\/p>\n<p>Loyalist street demonstrations have taken place for almost six weeks, since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-northern-ireland-20587538\">Belfast City Council voted to change its longstanding union flag policy<\/a> on 3 December.<\/p>\n<p>The council, which now has a nationalist majority, voted to fly the flag at Belfast City Hall on a number of designated days, as opposed to every day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of the street demonstrations have passed without incident, but some have resulted in serious rioting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"videoInStoryB\">\n<div id=\"emp-20998862-45451\" class=\"emp\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Friday night, four police officers were injured during union flag protests in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The most serious violence took place outside Belfast &#8211; in Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus in County Antrim.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cross-head\">Bus burnt<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Officers fired five plastic bullets as rioters threw more than 30 petrol bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks, petrol bombs and rocks were used to attack police in Newtownabbey and a bus was set alight near the Rathcoole estate.<\/p>\n<p>A crowd of more than 100 loyalists threw missiles at police in Carrickfergus.<\/p>\n<p>Two arrests were made and of the four police officers who were injured, one required hospital treatment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"audioInStoryC emp\">\n<div class=\"warning\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/65243000\/jpg\/_65243074_newtroub3.jpg\" alt=\"Policing the violence\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dozens of police officers have been injured in 40 days of protests and more than 100 people have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s protests &#8211; most of which passed without violence &#8211; took place in Counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, and Londonderry.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cross-head\">Pensioner jeered<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, in County Antrim, police used water cannon during trouble on the Shore Road in Whiteabbey and also in Newtownabbey, where a PSNI Land Rover with a CCTV camera on the roof was set alight with a petrol bomb.<\/p>\n<p>In Rathcoole in Newtownabbey, a distressed pensioner pleaded with protesters to let him pass through a road block so he could make his way to visit his seriously ill wife in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters jeered at the elderly man and refused to let him through.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police moved in to separate loyalists and nationalists at Albertbridge Road Loyalists and nationalists have clashed in east Belfast after a union flag protest in the city centre on Saturday. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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