Importing the worst of US youth mob culture into the UK because there’s no respect for the police or their
neighbourhoods & no fear of sanction!
Scenes being livestreamed on YouTube showed young people throwing fireworks and other missiles at a line of police officers with riot shields who were blocking one end of the street.
Shortly before midnight a car was set on fire and burned fiercely, while a second vehicle was overturned and set ablaze.
A member of the public was attacked due to rioters thinking they were an undercover officer, according to one of the senior officers at the scene.
Police, including mounted officers on horseback, were seen outside Ely police station in the early hours of Tuesday after suggestions it could be targeted.
Shortly before 3am, rioters moved down Highmead Road in Ely, followed by police who were trying to disperse them.
The rioters continued to throw missiles and set cars alight. John Urquhart, general secretary of the UK Harmony Party, who lives in the area, claimed a lack of communication from police to the community may have led to the escalation.
"They showed nothing but disdain for the community and acted like we didn't deserve to know what happened on our own doorstep," he said.
Jane Palmer, owner of a burnt out Ford Focus on Highmead Road, said she and her family had watched from their window as rioters set fire to her car.
"Why are they doing this? It's just silly now."
The family had tried to stop the fire using water from their garden hose.
At 8.21pm, South Wales Police said it had a "large number of officers working to manage the collision, but also to de-escalate ongoing disorder at the scene".
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