Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping
When it comes to protests against immigration and asylum hotels, accusations of two-tier policing are never far away. This week the spotlight has fallen on Essex Police, and its handling of a demonstration last week by Epping residents against an asylum hotel in the town, following an alleged sexual assault by a recently arrived Ethiopian migrant believed to be housed there. Essex Police has today tried to set the record straight Essex Police has been forced to admit that they escorted activists from the group Stand up to Racism to the Bell Hotel, the site of the protest. In video footage, police can be seen walking along an Epping street flanking
