A widely circulated video from Dundee shows a visibly distressed 14-year-old girl brandishing a knife and a small hatchet while confronting a man who, according to the recording, had been harassing her and her 12-year-old sister. Local reports say Scottish police subsequently arrested the teenager on suspicion of carrying offensive weapons; no arrest of the alleged harasser has been confirmed. The footage has sharpened scrutiny of the authorities’ long-running response to so-called grooming gangs. Rupert Lowe, chair of Parliament’s cross-party Rape Gang Inquiry, said this week that the investigation has identified evidence of gang-based sexual exploitation of children in 85 local authorities, underscoring the scale and persistence of the problem. Public anger has coalesced in a grassroots campaign dubbed “Operation Raise the Colours,” which urges supporters across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to display the St. George’s Cross or Union Jack as a protest against what organisers call official inaction. The episode has also inflamed the political debate over immigration and law-enforcement policy, with figures such as Nigel Farage and Elon Musk trading public criticism over how to address the issue.