NSW *Police* have crossed the line..
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NSW *Police* have crossed the line..
"Allegations of police throwing punches
Labor backbencher Anthony D’Adam says he saw police punching people and throwing someone to the ground, as tensions heated up at the Sydney protest.
He said initially police were “getting good cooperation from the crowd”, but then an officer pushed his bike into a woman and “clearly hurt her”. When she got angry, another officer pushed her into the crowd and other bystanders, who fell over, were shocked and angry, and started yelling. He said:
That then resulted in a number of other officers joining the fray. They grabbed someone and threw them on to the ground, and then they were just throwing punch after punch at this person.
It just seemed totally over the top in terms of the police reaction.
D’Adam went on to say that it was because the police didn’t have enough “scope” to manage the crowd and disperse people, and said if the government had allowed the protesters to march up George Street it wouldn’t have happened."
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