UK minister slams TikTok-inspired raid on London's Oxford Street


Earlier on Wednesday, the force warned there would be a heavy police presence in the area following 'online speculation' about opportunities to commit crime there, while London Mayor Sadiq Khan urged people not to take part and decried the 'nonsense' circulating on TikTok. — AP

LONDON: UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has called for those who took part in a suspected TikTok-inspired raid of shops in London's Oxford Street to be "hunted down" and jailed.

Footage showed police wielding batons in a clash with dozens of young men and wrestling some of them away, while officers on horseback helped to disperse hundreds of people in Europe's busiest shopping street on Wednesday (Aug 9).

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