Hate crime rise Police 'monitoring cases daily'

REPORTS of hate crime based on race or religion in Bristol increased by 6.3 per cent in the last 12 months.

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Chief constable Sarah Crew

And community leaders have voiced concerns that many people are starting to change how they live their lives because of the fear of being harassed in the street amid a growing sense of “anxiety”.

Earlier this month, in the latest unrest between mass immigration protesters and anti-racism counter-demonstrators in the city centre, police battled to keep the two rival groups apart as they gathered on College Green.

Anti-immigration campaigners had marched through the city and huge lines of police were deployed but there were still a number of clashes.