A 36-year-old man threw a frying pan at police after violence broke out in Southampton during a protest following the murder of student Henry Nowak, a court heard.
Ryan Atkinson, of Highcliff Avenue, Southampton, who is the 22nd person to be charged following the protests, entered his guilty plea to violent disorder at Southampton Magistrates’ Court.
District Judge Henry Gordon told the court that Atkinson had “picked up a large frying pan and launched it at police” during the disorder.
He remanded the defendant in custody to be sentenced at Southampton Crown Court on 29 June and told him: “I find there are substantial grounds that if I granted you bail you would commit further offences.”
So far 10 people have been jailed following the demonstration involving 1,000 people, which started outside Southampton Central Police Station on 2 June.
Hundreds then moved on to the Portswood area where Mr Nowak was killed and where the violence started.
During the disorder, multiple items were thrown at police, including bricks, bins, glass and planters.
Anger had erupted after police body-worn video was released showing Mr Nowak being placed in handcuffs moments before he became unconscious and subsequently died.
Vickrum Digwa, 23, who lived in a nearby road with his family, was jailed for life to serve a minimum of 21 years for his murder.
The court hearings have been told that 13 police officers and a police dog were injured and a member of the public suffered a broken jaw in the violence which happened when hundreds continued the protest which moved to the street where Mr Nowak was killed.
The police operation involved 100 officers from nine different areas with a cost of £443,000 and a clean-up cost to the local council of £7,000.
Edward Culver, a prosecutor in a separate case, said that a police officer involved in the operation described the protesters as treating the disorder as a “party or blood-sport” and they feared “someone could be killed”.
Four more men are set to be sentenced at Southampton Crown on Friday for their parts in the disorder.