Watching from my balcony right now. I’ve counted several who’ve been hit, sprayed. The police are using aggressive charging attacks and anyone not fast enough to get away is pepper sprayed or worse.
How the hell can we allow protesting to be banned. Whatever side you’re on, this is not okay.
https://v.redd.it/38hq3rcvufig1
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This is horrible ☹️
Good on you for documenting OP.
NSW police are dogs.
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That doesnt look like police blocking off an area, it looks like NSW police running trying to spray whoever they can
Non-Sydney here. What protest is this? Anti-Herzog, same as in Melbourne tonight?
Shoebridge’s been given video of cops punching an elderly guy with his hands up.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidshoebridge.bsky.social/post/3meg3imbuys2g
Fuck you Minns and Fuck you Herzog
I was chatting with an old lady the cops pepper sprayed and harassed. Pretty disgusting stuff
Coppers are little better than a gang and ought to be treated as such.
We need to stand against this. People need the right to protest.
I can feel my social cohesion repairing
/s
Just pathetic and cowardly from NSW police.
Israel bringing their hate here
NSW cops have been corrupt bullies since the days of the rum corps
Shameful politics by Minns.
One of the most shameful acts of police aggression I’ve seen in this country. It’s blatantly over the top.
I will say nice camera work.
news going to steal it.
History should not look kindly on Minns.
Using pepper spray against a non escalating threat is meant to be a no no. Let alone against someone retreating.
Meant to be being the operative word.
Thanks for recording OP!
Far out. What a hero that cop is that just fires pepper spray any old place, including on a person who just fell over and a person who is clearly trying to run away.
Happy for police to cordon off areas and maintain boundaries… this is a straight up police assault. It’s an organised march, but it gets a US spec riot response.
Pepper spraying someone surrounded on the ground who has displayed zero threatening behaviour is fucked.
NSW police has always been corrupted. Look at Friendlyjordie videos
Why? what is happening?
This is not crowd control, this is the fucking opposite
Very convenient timing for the hate speech laws and ban on protesting to come in right as the Epstein files are released and the Israeli rep visits. Very convenient timing indeed.
Oh yay we get closer to Americanising ourselves everyday 🫠
Remember this shit come election day.
All in service to a genocidal fascist regime. Great job ALP
All the magat wannabe Aussie must be loving seeing this! They want us to be American so badly.
So, wait…has the function of police been the protection of property and established power dynamics all along? What a fucking curveball.
Am I starring in Black Mirror?
Friendly reminder that Israel trains many different police in the US and I know it’s been proposed to be adopted here. Feels like this is a show for Herzog, “see, our police have potential”.
Australia, do you feel this? Do you see this?
This is what happened in America just a few years ago.
This is how it started.
Do you remember how we watched shit like this, we saw a couple of Aussie journalists get hit by rubber bullets and that sort of thing?
Do you remember how it escalated and escalated and it never fucking stopped?
It’s not going to fucking stop. How do we stop it?
Well damn, didn’t realise we’d slipped quite this low. Remember this when the voting booths open.
Masterclass is de-escalation. /s
The police are everywhere even side streets in Surrey. They seem to be checking people at Central
Helicopters been hovering all day.
Minns has to go. This is beyond messed up.
Absolutely disgraceful and shameful.
People with their hands up being openly struck by multiple officers.
A woman, standing innocently, in harms way.
We are better than this.
Oh shit, I literally just walked through the protest to get home. Bruh what the fuck.
What the fuck, this coupled with the almost no reaction to the Perth terrorist from politicians and media has got me a pretty concerned about the state of things here.
Moments like these that people lose respect for cops.
Shame on NSW police and NSW gov.
What’s with the royal treatment they give to the Israel gov? I doubt they would be this brutal to protesters if it were for King Charles.
Is this Sydney or Minneapolis
Acab. Always
Minns needs to be forcibly removed from power.
Those whom we are not allowed to criticize gain power from that fact alone.
Looks straight out of the US
For anyone who’s wondering, the church bells were the regular Monday bell-ringing rehearsal.
Feeling so much unity rn. Thank you Albo /s
Weren’t they told to go to town hall?