A day of confrontations began when 5,000 white youths and adults, many of them drunk, wrapped in Australian flags and chanting racist slurs, fought a series of skirmishes with police, attacked people of Arab appearance and assaulted a pair of ambulance officers in Cronulla.
The violence was a reaction to reports that youths of Lebanese ancestry were responsible for an attack last weekend on two of the beach's volunteer life guards.
One white teenager had the words "We grew here, you flew here" painted on his back.
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