Greater Manchester Police has launched an investigation into a complaint of "assault" from GB News reporter Sophie Reaper.
Reaper, the People's Channel’s North West reporter, was broadcasting live from a Stand Up To Racism protest near a hotel in Altrincham, Cheshire.
She said she was "a bit shaken up" and had "a bit of a killer headache" and had complained to police as "I don’t feel it is appropriate for violence to ever be used."
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Sophie Reaper reports from outside the Altrincham hotel
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A spokesman from Greater Manchester Police said: "We are investigating reports of an assault at around 6.45pm on Church Street, Altrincham last night (August 8).
"Inquiries into the incident are currently ongoing."
Around 100 people had met on each side of the dual carriageway in Greater Manchester once the protest had got under way by around 6pm.
UK and English flags were waved on the side facing the hotels with chants of 'save our kids' and 'send them home' regularly repeated.
Sophie took to Instagram to share an update following the ordeal | X / SOPHIE REAPERProtests broke out around the country, including in Bristol, Bournemouth, Liverpool and Birmingham among others on Saturday, and Portsmouth, Southampton and Aldershot in Hampshire, Leicester and Altrincham in Cheshire on Friday evening.
A handful of people were arrested at demonstrations in Canary Wharf, in London, and Epping, in Essex, on Friday night.
Organised demonstrations usually have several hundred people at a time, but sometimes thousands.
Anti-immigration activists are also present outside the buildings, which are believed to be housing asylum seekers.
Discussing the state of Britain's escalating protests, political commentator Theo Usherwood told GB News: "It is problematic.
"People have a right to be concerned, they have a right to make their voice heard, but they have to do so peacefully, and they have to do so within the confines of the law.
"What we can't have is a situation where we have riot police having to step in with metal objects being thrown and people's lives being put in danger."
Noting that those who wish to stir up violence at peaceful protests should "stay away", Usherwood added: "I'd have thought the easiest way for those who are against these protests outside the migrant hotels would be to stay away.