"Dirty whores." "You should be put on fire." So shouted the 100-strong mob as it surrounded the house of a group of women, thought to be sex workers, in Belfast on Friday 29th July. Vigilante attacks of this type aren't new but this one was filmed and, if you have the stomach, you can watch it again in all its horror.What can be gleaned from this particular shit show? That this was a community desperately opposed to having prostitution in its midst; that the mob was made up of men, women and children; that some were laughing, some spitting in anger; that the police showed up and took the women away (not to be arrested, according to the PSNI, but for their own safety). What else: that people's reaction to sex workers is violent enough for them to suggest that women should be burned.
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