by Will Bolton. David Shipley. Albert Tait. Charles Hymas, Telegraph
Essex officers brought counter-demonstrators to face angry residents, claim witnesses
Police have admitted escorting pro-migrant protesters to an asylum hotel at the centre of days of volatile demonstrations.
Essex Police initially denied that it had brought activists from the group Stand up to Racism to the Bell Hotel in Epping amid claims by anti-migrant protesters that the arrival of counter-demonstrators sparked the violence on July 17.
However, the force backtracked after being shown footage of the protesters being escorted by officers from a nearby station to the hotel.
On Wednesday, Essex Police will hold a press conference, at which is expected to explain its policing of the demonstrations.
It came as Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, admitted that mass migration is threatening community cohesion, amid growing fears over another summer of riots.
Read also: Why Are Police in Epping Escorting Far-Left Counter-Protesters into Direct Confrontation With Locals – Then Giving Them a Lift Home? by Steven Tucker, The Daily Sceptic
‘We can’t walk safely day or night’: How an Essex town reached boiling point over a migrant hotel by Judith Woods, Telegraph