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A man is jailed for two years and eight months after he was seen kicking a black man.

Bristol Crown Court heard Daniel Russell had been attending an anti-immigration protest when he attacked a black man, who may have been part of an anti-racism protest and broke through police lines separating the two groups in Castle Park.

Russell, 47, from Bristol, was then captured on footage posted on social media kicking out at counter-protesters who were stood in front of a hotel used to house asylum seekers.

He pleaded guilty to violent disorder.

BBC news

Two men have pleaded guilty to violent disorder in Bristol city centre on Saturday night.

Mark Bowen, 40, of no fixed address, and Daniel Russell, 47, of Redfield, Bristol, appeared separately before Bristol Magistrates’ Court on Friday afternoon. Both admitted the single charge against them and were remanded in custody ahead of their sentencing hearing at Bristol Crown Court on August 14.

District Judge Lynne Matthews described how Bowen commented to police: “I didn’t even know what was going on, I don’t have social media, I was just a drunk idiot”.

The judge told Russell: “You will appear for your day of reckoning at the crown court at Bristol on Wednesday.”

Manchester Evening News