COPS have arrested two women after one launched “racist abuse” during a TV interview.
Two women, aged 30 and 43, were detained on suspicion of a public order offence following the incident earlier this week.
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It comes after one suspect, holding a beer, interrupted an interview between a businessman and Sky News on a Nuneaton street, in Warwickshire.
Zahin, 32, was speaking to the media about community tensions over asylum seekers when the chat took a turn.
The video showed two women walking past with a group of children as Zahin begins answering the first question.
But one woman, holding a glass of beer, walked in front of the camera and started shouting.
“Can you not see we’re talking?” Zahin said, referring to the ongoing interview with Midlands correspondent Shamaan Freeman-Powell.
The second woman replied: “That’s the issue we’re having with you in our country, you’re raping our kids.”
Zahin, who moved to the UK from Malawi at the age of six, calmly asked: “What you teaching them kids?”
The first woman then shouted a racist slur followed by “save our kids”.
A spokesperson for Warwickshire Police said today: “Earlier today we arrested two women from Nuneaton as part of an investigation into an interaction between several members of the public that has been widely shared on social media and in the news.
“The footage saw members of the public subjected to racial abuse, with one reportedly being pushed.
“A 30-year-old woman from Nuneaton has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence.
“A second woman from Nuneaton, aged 43, has been arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and of racially aggravated common assault.
“Enquiries are ongoing.”
Following the shocking scenes, the Sky News presenter had to step in to check if Zahin was ok.
Visibly affected, he replied: “I’m used to this conflict.”
The interviewee and Sky News crew moved locations.
Nuneaton has seen several anti-immigration protests in recent weeks, and the town has become a flashpoint in the national conversation around asylum.
Zahin said he backs people’s right to demonstrate peacefully: “We have a right to protest for whatever cause we want to – that’s the beauty of living in England.”
It comes as tensions surrounding the migrant crisis have reached boiling point in the UK.
Outrage was sparked last week after the Court of Appeal overturned a ruling to boot migrants out of The Bell Hotel in Epping.
It saw communities turn out in droves to protest outside of hotels across the country.
Hundreds of the England flags and Union Jacks have also cropped up in towns and cities, being hung on lampposts and fences as it becomes a symbol of protest against illegal immigrants.
Many have angrily torn them down, arguing that the flags are inflaming tensions.
After the Court of Appeal’s ruling, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted on X: “The government has used ECHR against the people of Epping. Illegal migrants have more rights than the British people under Starmer.”
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch also claimed Sir Keir “puts the rights of illegal immigrants above the rights of British people who just want to feel safe in their towns and communities”.
On Sunday, ministers put a temporary halt on refugees bringing in partners and children.
The PM also said he wanted to bring forward his 2029 deadline for closing asylum hotels because he “completely gets” the public’s anger.
Sir Keir Starmer also last week declared himself a “supporter of flags” — and revealed he still proudly displayed a St George’s Cross in his flat.
The PM added: “They’re patriotic and a great symbol of our nation. I don’t think they should be devalued and belittled.”
But his positive slant was derailed by the news of the failure of the one-in, one-out deal with France’s Emmanuel Macron.
More than 100 people are understood to have been detained in removal centres — with footage shared by No 10 showing people being escorted by staff after arriving across the Channel.
Nationwide protests over the summer pushed the PM to act as public anger over hotel use soared.
The Home Office houses about 32,000 asylum seekers in more than 200 hotels across Britain.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said accommodation for illegal migrants would be dealt with “not just by shifting individuals from hotels to other sites, but by driving down the numbers in supported accommodation overall”.
Hotels would be reconfigured to increase room-sharing and the test for accommodation would be tightened, she added.
She also insisted that the Home Office would try to “identify alternative cheaper and more appropriate accommodation”.
Meanwhile, last month, Mr Farage unveiled his radical mass deportation blueprint, dubbed Operation Restoring Justice, aiming to expel up to 600,000 undocumented migrants over five years.
His plan also includes withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights and scrapping the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.
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