Overview
- An estimated 50 to 60 people used cars and wheelie bins to block Lower Broughton Road, with one vehicle torched and others damaged during the unrest
- Greater Manchester Police deployed riot officers, a helicopter unit and laid on extra patrols, issuing a dispersal order that runs until 2 pm on June 12
- A 16-year-old girl was charged with assaulting a police officer and a 16-year-old boy alongside four men aged between 18 and the 30s were arrested on suspicion of theft, public order offences, drug possession and carrying a bladed article
- Local residents had warned of weeks of intimidation by groups of hooded youths throwing bricks and fireworks at motorists and daubing nearby flats with graffiti
- Councillor John Merry and GMP confirmed the disorder was sparked by the funeral of 16-year-old Kailem Robinson, who died in a motorcycle crash on May 22