A family were left ‘really, really scared’ as protestors attempted to get into their house and threw fireworks, a resident who helped them told Sky News.
The woman, who did not want to give her name, said people were trying to kick a man, his wife and their teenage daughter out of their house in the Shankill Road area.
“I could just see them all going into the house,” she said. “I don’t know how I did it but I stopped every one of them from going into the bedroom.”
The woman added taht the family seemed “really, really scared”.
She continued: “I just said, come out with me, I’ll help you, just come with me… I walked out with them and I could see people looking at me.”
She then shouted at demonstrators that the family were not involved in Monday night’s attack.
“We just kept walking and walked right out of the street with them and walked right around the corner.”
The woman said she believed that “definitely, something really bad would have happened” had she not intervened.
“I think they would have been beaten to a pulp,” she said. “To be honest, I dread to think what would have happened.”
She said she had been thinking about the attack on Monday the whole day and how it highlighted riots in Northern Ireland last year.
“You’re thinking, what’s going to happen and what’s the worst that can happen?” she said.
“I don’t know but when I saw them going into that house, I just knew that something really bad was going to happen to them, only because they were foreign. I was the only person there that actually stopped it.”
