What has become known as “two-tier policing” in the UK – the alleged practice of dealing more harshly with one set of protestors than others, based on their politics – has now been dismissed in a Home Office report as “a right wing extremist narrative.”
The report has been leaked by the Policy Exchange think tank, the UK press is reporting.
Unsurprisingly, those that various politicians, activists, and media have for years been saying are disfavored by the authorities in terms of how their protests are handled, have simply been branded as “extreme right wing.”
“Two-tier policing,” suggesting a deliberate two sets of rules for one group of people publicly expressing their dissatisfaction, debuted during the BLM protests way back in the Covid days when UK’s law enforcement was slammed for “soft policing.”
And it culminated last summer when the handling of post-Southport killings demonstrators was considered excessively harsh, summed up by X owner Elon Musk referring to UK’s Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer as, “two-tier Keir.” […]
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