‘Are we gonna die?’: Teenager recalls hiding from far-right as group shouted racist slurs outside home

A teenager recalled hiding from far-right rioters as the group shouted racist slurs outside her house.Source: BBC Radio 4 Today

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00:00For my mum especially, it's been 20 years since she's came to the UK and for us all as a family

00:05it's been 12 years since living in the house we live in and it's just been a traumatic experience

00:11like we've never experienced in our life. How have you explained this to your younger siblings

00:15and what are they saying? They were scared initially so when the riot was happening

00:21they were just scared saying don't go near the window, don't even look out the windows, we're

00:25scared. What if they come in? What's going to happen to us? Are we going to die? They were

00:29scared, they didn't know what to do, how to feel, they were crying as well. Have you been out since?

00:35What's it been like for you? Yeah we've been out since to obviously look at the car, look at the

00:41damage done but still we feel like you just get looked at in weird ways now because of the riot.

00:46The traumatic post time of it, you could just see people looking, staring, seeing what's happened.