The Daily Mail reports: "Rings of steel placed around Canary Wharf and Epping asylum seeker hotels after second night of anti-migrant protests outside four-star venue." Basically, the story is about police erecting barricades around a former luxury hotel--The Britannia International Hotel in London's Canary Wharf--which has been turned into a shelter for migrants. What touched off the protests is a planned shift from sheltering migrant families at the hotel to sheltering single male migrants. The article relates:
Guards kitted out in black uniforms and wearing face masks were seen manning the barriers this morning, as security was tightened.
Meanwhile, more than a dozen officers from the Metropolitan Police have gathered outside the building.
The heightened protective measures come amid fresh fears of further protests exploding tomorrow and over the weekend.
Why would police expect protests "exploding" Friday and over the weekend? Perhaps the same way that they expected protests in Epping, Essex, to turn violent: their bussing in the counter-protestors (See, e.g., "Police take pro-migrant protesters to asylum hotel"--The Telegraph). The police, and by extension, their bosses in government, want these protests to turn violent. Why? I don't know, but I would expect that it is so they can portray anyone opposing open borders as unhinged. So the news can broadcast footage of moms and dads being dragged off to jail as a warning to anyone else that opposes their immigration plans. And, perhaps, as an excuse to further crack down on any expression of discontent among the populace. What they don't want is for these protests to spread.
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