DRAMATISKA FILMEN: Här går gänget till attack mot polisen i Rinkeby. pic.twitter.com/0vrNE0w8u4
— Expressen (@Expressen) February 21, 2017
A few days ago the media was chuckling over President Trump's mention of migrant violence in Sweden. As with the Bowling Green Muslim terror plot, the media pretended to be deeply baffled and amused.
Riots erupted in a heavily immigrant Stockholm suburb Monday night, as masked looters set cars ablaze and threw rocks at cops, injuring one police officer, Swedish officials said.
The violence in Rinkeby began around 8 p.m., when officers arrested a suspect at an underground station on drug charges, The Local reported. A group soon gathered, hurling rocks and other objects at officers and prompting one cop to fire his gun “in a situation that demanded he use his firearm,” police spokesman Lars Bystrom said.
A photographer from media outlet Dagens Nyheter said a group of 15 people beat him as he tried to document the chaos.
“I was hit with a lot of punches and kicks both to my body and my head. I have spent the night in hospital,” said the photographer, who was not named.
Rinkeby is the same area where an Australian "60 Minutes" crew was attacked by a group of men in April 2016. The film crew was attempting to enter a so-called “no go zone,” which authorities deny they use as a label. Rinkeby, however, has been officially classified as one of 15 “particularly vulnerable” areas across Sweden.
This is still far less bad than the violence that has taken place in Rinkeby in past years.
The media will continue playing word games and denying the obvious. But Rinkeby's Muslim migrants offered a timely reminder that Trump was right.