Looks like some five thousand ill tempered people have been finally pushed over the edge by years of politically correct treatment of dangerous minority thugs.
From a The Age [Australia] article, Sydney's racist mob violence spreads :
Sydney's racist mob violence spreads [/] December 11, 2005
[…] About 5,000 people descended on Cronulla beach as mobs yelling racist chants chased down and bashed people of Middle Eastern appearance. [/] Police and an ambulance crew were also assaulted as racial tensions peaked.
Hopes that the violence had subsided by nightfall were dashed when, in an apparent retaliatory strike, a 23-year-old man was stabbed in the back outside a golf club at nearby Woolooware. [/] Two cars carrying a group of males, described by police as being of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance, approached the man at about 10.25pm (AEDT) Sunday night. [/] Following a short conversation he was stabbed in the back, and was taken to hospital in a serious condition. [/] At about the same time, up to 50 carloads of youths smashed more than 100 cars with baseball bats and other weapons in the beach suburb of Maroubra.
[…] Earlier on Sunday, when the trouble first flared at Cronulla, 12 people were charged after mobs of youths chanting racist slogans and carrying Australian flags attacked youths of Middle Eastern appearance. [/] Five police were injured when the mob turned on them. [/] Two paramedics were also injured as they tried to rescue a group of people from the Cronulla Surf Lifesaving Club, where they had fled to escape the violence. [/] The mob broke the ambulance vehicle's windows and kicked its doors as the paramedics tried to get the group out. [/] […] A group later made its way back to Cronulla for a retaliatory strike, where men of Middle Eastern appearance are reported to have bashed a local man unconscious.
A 23-year-old man was injured and more than 40 cars were smashed with baseball bats during violent scenes in Maroubra, in Sydney's east, overnight. [/] A group of about 60 men of Middle Eastern appearance and armed with baseball bats smashed about 40 parked cars at about 9 pm (AEDT) Sunday night. [/] The group then clashed with a local group, the Bra Boys, outside the Maroubra Bay Hotel.
[…] Police established a roadblock to prevent more people from entering the suburb. [My ellipses and emphasis]
