{"id":585815,"date":"2026-05-15T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585815\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T17:01:08","slug":"man-injured-in-hit-and-run-after-flags-clash-in-stirchley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585815\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured in hit-and-run after flags clash in Stirchley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local group Stirchley is For Everyone, made up of residents and business owners, said the night of &#8220;targeted violence and hospitalisations&#8221; marked a &#8220;dangerous escalation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said they had faced months of &#8220;harassment, doxxing, and intimidation&#8221; from the group and urged Birmingham Selly Oak MP, Al Carns, to help. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite consistent pleas from the community for intervention, residents feel they have been left to face this far-right aggression alone,&#8221; a statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defence minister Carns, who is thought may run for the Labour leadership as a potential successor to Keir Starmer, condemned the violence in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlistairCarns\/status\/2055279541740802483\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">post on X, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am seriously concerned by reports of intimidation and violence in Stirchley yesterday and have written to the West Midlands Police to highlight these issues,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The union jack is a symbol of unity, not division, of patriotism, not polarisation. I condemn all attempts to hijack our flag and sow violence in our communities for political gain.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local group Stirchley is For Everyone, made up of residents and business owners, said the night of &#8220;targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}