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STORY: :: Viral video shows TikTok star

offering free ice cream to UK police

:: who have been tackling anti-Muslim

and anti-immigration riots across the country

:: Wrexham, Wales

:: August 3, 2024

:: Mr Tee, TikTok star

"We had a trip to Sainsbury's just to get some bits and pieces and we can hear all these riot vans parked there that had a load of police that were just ready to get deployed, if the need came, for any trouble. And they were just there and we just thought, while we're not doing anything, just see if they want a little token of our appreciation."

Mr Tee, King of Desserts, posted a TikTok video taken in the English city of Sunderland that amassed over 2.6 million views, in which he offered a police van full of officers ice creams, with the theme tune to 1980s hit TV show 'The A-Team' blaring.

"We just thought we'd show them a little bit of love," Mr Tee, whose real name is Ashiq, told Reuters.

The two-minute clip - in which one policeman asked for a special birthday ice cream for a colleague - struck a chord with the British public, the vast majority of whom think the riots are unjustified, according to a recent YouGov poll.