As Martin McCauley and Stephen Barnes have noted on twitter – after 2 nights of rioting in Rathcoole the PSNI have yet to deploy a single Baton Round or roll out their water cannons.
The petrol bombs, vehicle burnings and gunmen mingling within the rioters have been described as ‘different beasts’.
Lucky old Rathcoole rioters.
But will people in Ardoyne understand the softly, softly PSNI attitude to things just up the road when they got the iron fist?
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