A “preventative raid”, which targeted migrant workers in a vegetable warehouse in Moscow was overrun by angry protestors Sunday.
According to the BBC, more than 1, 200 people arrested during the riot.
The riot started during a protest over the death of an ethnic Russian man earlier that week.
Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, was with his girlfriend when he was killed in Moscow’s Biryulyovo district.
Police have release a security camera photo of the suspect, which the media has suggested looks like a man of “non-Slavic appearance”.
This has caused Russian Nationals to assume that the killer was a Muslim Migrant.
Immigration and international migration were two main topics discussed in Moscow’s recent election.