Overview
- The car meet, which drew scores of vehicles Monday evening on Stewartstown Road in the Colin area, featured erratic driving as crowds packed the route.
- Officers who moved in to respond were hit with bottles and pieces of masonry, leaving two officers struck and several police vehicles damaged.
- Police said the event was organised online and warned participants that they will use all available powers, including seizing vehicles used in dangerous driving.
- An evidence-gathering operation was in place and investigators are now working to identify suspects, with appeals for information from anyone who witnessed the disorder.
- Sinn Féin MLA Danny Baker and Independent Councillor Paul Doherty condemned the scenes, with Baker seeking an urgent meeting on the policing response and Doherty urging parents to bring young people home.