The teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, also threw masonry at PSNI officers targeted in a separate bout of unrest last month, a judge was told.
A 15-year-old boy wrapped in a Union flag was allegedly among rioters who pushed towards a hostel as racial violence flared on the streets of Belfast, a court heard today.
“The defendant was arrested after being identified on CCTV with a group of males wrapped in the Union flag,” an investigating detective said.Police at the scene had to call for back-up as they battled to push the crowd back from the premises. In separate footage from Monday, he was again viewed talking to a group who had been involved in targeting police, blocking roads with burning bins and setting fireworks off into an already badly damaged supermarket.
“The United Kingdom is currently seeing a huge spike in public disorder, with racial undertones,” the detective stressed.
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