Two-month-old baby rescued during Belfast violence, reveals chief constable
A two-month-old baby was rescued during the violence in Belfast on Tuesday night, the chief constable of the PSNI has said.
Chief Constable Jon Boutcher told BBC’s Good Morning Ulster: “Last night we rescued so many families.
“Taking families – a baby as young as two months – out of their address to safety, taking them to police stations.”
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He added: “And by the way, these weren’t just families from ethnic minority communities, these were families from across communities that were caught up in this vile behaviour last night.
“There is absolutely no excuse for it.
“And I do just want to say very specifically a huge thank you to all of the officers of the PSNI last night who again stood in harm’s way to try to keep people safe, and the ambulance service and the fire service, (who) were remarkable in doing everything that they could to make sure that we kept any disruption or any risk to people to an absolute minimum.”