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The protest recalled the racist riots that shook Britain in summer 2024, when men set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers while people were inside.
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Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Decades before Pennywise torments the Loser's Club, members of the Maine Legion of White Decency, a white supremacist group, set fire to the Black Spot, a military speakeasy catering to Black patrons, with all of its revelers trapped inside.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
Officers then responded to the apartment to serve the EPS, at which time the man set fire to the apartment, according to police.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
This, too, would be lost when two convicts set fire to the roof during an escape attempt on March 28, 1850.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
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Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Decades before Pennywise torments the Loser's Club, members of the Maine Legion of White Decency, a white supremacist group, set fire to the Black Spot, a military speakeasy catering to Black patrons, with all of its revelers trapped inside.
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Dec. 2025
Officers then responded to the apartment to serve the EPS, at which time the man set fire to the apartment, according to police.
—Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
This, too, would be lost when two convicts set fire to the roof during an escape attempt on March 28, 1850.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
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“Set fire to.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set%20fire%20to. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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