On February 9, approximately 30,000 community members gathered at Sydney Town Hall to peacefully protest the visit of Israel’s President, who was found by a UN Commission of Inquiry to have directly incited genocide in Gaza.
We were met with unbridled aggression from NSW Police officers, who pepper sprayed, chased, and assaulted community members who had no way to safely disperse.
This week, the NSW Premier and Police Minister have defended the brutality of the NSW Police and even tried to justify it by saying protestors weren’t compliant enough.
They’ve said that we “should be thanking the police” and shouldn’t condemn their violence “without the full context”.
If NSW Labor needs more “context” to understand that police violence is never acceptable, we can provide this in the form of firsthand stories from the thousands of people who were there and experienced terror at the hands of the NSW Police.
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