We all have the power to push back from lies

WE warned about it. Now it's happening. Pockets of hate from thugs and racists, fed on lies and hungry to choose violence.

- DARREN LEWIS

I saw some distressing examples on social media last week: a Black man in London grabbed by the neck by a middle-aged white guy and punched - with his assailant demanding to know his address and telling him to “**** off”.

And the viral clip that appeared to show a racially aggravated assault on two elderly Sikh men outside Wolverhampton railway station. Three teenagers have been arrested.

And the man attacked and racially abused by two men at a Metro Station in North Shields in broad daylight.

Even the bizarre incident as the Premier League returned on Friday night, with an individual in a wheelchair hurling insults at Black Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo.

Arrests have been made, but these kind of attacks continue across the country.

Many highlight the spike in the number of Muslims and migrants harassed and assaulted in public across England since last summer's riots and the explosion of hate and xenophobia.

The attackers don't even care about being filmed with phone cameras these days.