- Ethnic minority healthcare workers, including nurses, have been subjected to "disgraceful threats and intimidation" and suspected racist attacks during violent disorder in Belfast .
- A nurse was chased by four masked men at Ulster Hospital, and windows were broken at a private homecare service, leading to staff being taken off shifts.
- Northern Ireland secretary Hilary Benn condemned the violence as "racist thuggery," while Ulster Unionist Party leader Jon Burrows labelled those targeting nurses as "the scum of the earth."
- Police Service Northern Ireland is increasing patrols and deploying bolstered numbers of officers after 12 officers were injured in clashes involving bricks and petrol bombs.
- The family of Stephen Ogilvie, whose knife attack preceded the riots, condemned the subsequent violence, urging against its use to divide people or fuel hostility.
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