Shocking ‘racial abuse’ captured on camera as Black teenager beaten up

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Four teenage boys have been arrested after a video of a “racially-aggravated hate incident” towards a Black college scholar in Carlisle triggered public uproar on social media.

A distressing video circulating on-line seems to point out the Black scholar in uniform being pushed and punched within the chest on Friday by a white male close to St John Henry Newman Catholic School.

The survivor is repeatedly harassed and issued a number of blows earlier than being compelled to kiss the white teenager’s footwear, the distressing video exhibits.

In one other clip purportedly filmed after the incident, the white teenager might be seen following the survivor up the road and punching him twice earlier than onlookers intervene.

The movies shared on Friday garnered over six million views on X, triggering an uproar over the blatantly racist incident.

“Racism in the UK is getting worse everyday. Are Black people not safe in Carlisle,” social media person Olumo of Derby captioned the video.

After the video went viral, the Cumbria police on Saturday morning initially arrested a teenage boy and mentioned it was conscious of “concerns in the community”.

The pressure urged folks to not share the video so as to not “impede any legal proceedings or to identify any of the children involved”.

The police later within the day introduced the arrest of three extra white youngsters, all from Carlisle.

One of the youngsters was arrested on suspicion of “racially-aggravated actual bodily harm” and the opposite three have been arrested on suspicion of abetting racially-aggravated precise bodily hurt.

“These are abhorrent pictures circulating on-line which have induced shock and concern in each the neighborhood and amongst officers right here at Cumbria Police,” superintendent Sarah Jones said in a statement.

She added: “We … can reassure the neighborhood that is an incident we’re taking very severely – and we now have made 4 arrests.

“Our officers have labored via the night time and proceed to hold out investigations at the moment.” Police might be growing patrols in Carlisle in response to issues from the neighborhood.