# Sam McBride assaulted as he questions protesters in east Belfast Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-belfast Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-belfast.md Podcast: [The BelTel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912) Published: 2026-06-17T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-beltel/episodes/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-bel Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/e/6a315dbf780d0f7579b1f365/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-belfast Duration seconds: 2342 ## Resource Belfast Telegraph’s Sam McBride went to East Belfast to ask people blocking a road – albeit peacefully – why they were protesting. That led to him being assaulted, challenged to a fight, intimidated and sworn at.  The fallout from last week’s riots continues with 35 arrests, and 23 people charged.  Police have described the events as “inexcusable lawlessness”.  Sam McBride joined Ciarán Dunbar.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-beltel-5373912/episodes/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-belfast/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-beltel-5373912/sam-mcbride-assaulted-as-he-questions-protesters-in-east-belfast.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.