Police violently clash with protesters during anti-Israeli President rally | 9 News Australia

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TLDR: Chris Minns defends police actions and blames the protestors

Says all the videos from yestarday were out of context

And Karl stefanovic does some terrible journalism by not pushing back at all.

All in all I hope he loses the state election in a landslide

Edit: there’s a protest outside Surry hill police station today at 5:30, I recon those who can should attend

This is just fucked. Protesting is our right, and the way these cops acted is inexcusable. The cops need to go, and Minns needs to fuck right off.

Aww poor police babies, needing ice their hands from punching on. What a fucking farce, minns will get voted out and pick up some Israeli funded job.

Man I thought Karl was a guy who stood up for the working class Australian. Looks like the lobby groups got him too. What a absolute wanker

Edit* I have been out of the loop with mainstream media for while

NSW Pol should be ashamed of themselves.

If you dislike what the police did, there’s a flash rally outside the Surry Hills police station at 5:30pm today. (It’s outside the “Special Event”/“police can punch anyone they like with impunity” zone)

We cannot allow this to be our ICE moment.

Fuck this, it is so so so so wrong. These laws, this state visit, all of it is disgusting. Not as disgusting as Bondi granted, but this is not what we do as Australians.

Why are we now in a world where these ELECTED politicians think they have more power than the people. We need to take more notes from the French.

Where do we even go from here? All the politicians are bought out, no matter what side.

I’m a Labor supporter but Chris Minns isn’t it. Any other politicians that condemned the police actions?

Here’s a funny ridiculous quote from Minns today.

>Police didn’t go out there looking for fights, police didn’t go out there looking for violence

And some from the commisioner

>They’re [organisers] always very quick to say they don’t want violence, they don’t want conflict but when they’re on microphones telling crowds to do the wrong thing, telling crowds to take on police, this is what happens

>please understand they are small videos being put up and I would say out of context of what was a rolling melee of violence and un-Australian and inappropriate behaviour tonight

The irony is so thick. He talks about context yet misses the BIGGER context that the peaceful march was disallowed. All the organisers wanted to do was to peacefully march but they weren’t allowed so the cops had to use violence to arrest them.

UnAustralian? That’s even more absurd to use when MINSS BANNED A PROTEST.

Correction to Minns: They did everything to create the situation. Protest was peaceful – go see my footage posted on here from the tram to see that it was just people standing around. They could have let people meet, then march and go home. They decided not to let people get in to stand with the protest (creating conflict) they pushed people back and gave them the runaround. They also wouldn’t let people march, holding them behind a line of police so they were stuck at town hall. They then started pushing people around and spraying them with pepper spray purely to make them comply for the sake of compliance. They decided to push and drag people around because they thought they could.

They could have just got out of the way, but they were under orders to prevent people from marching “Just because”.

The police then escalated by threatening everyone with arrest for not clearing the area (oh you’re blocking the path etc), but not to march elsewhere of course..

Now blaming protesters for the police violence is a common trick. But enough footage caught this on camera for a change. People aren’t as fooled by the media just refusing to report it at all or else reframing it with a few curated pictures that cast enough doubt. They will try of course

How do you expect police to react when there is a group of men peacefully praying? For all we know they were praying for god to strike down the police. Did you ever think of that? It was clearly self defense!

How do they justify this?
https://www.reddit.com/r/friendlyjordies/s/dcrn7PwS4Z

This is devastating. I try to teach my child that police are there to help us and protect us. How can I say that in good conscience seeing all these videos of police assaulting multiple people. How can Chris Minns defend this, does he not have eyes?