#Sydney #police action was 'corporal punishment of peaceful community', #Greens say.
The Greens said the police action amounted to “summary physical punishment against legitimate and #peacefulprotest”.
#SueHigginson, Greens MP and the party’s spokesperson for #justice, said it was “corporal punishment against a peaceful community” caused by the “inflammatory actions” of #ChrisMinns.
She said she would be referring the “wildly inappropriate” police actions to the law enforcement conduct commission.
“A lawful and peaceful public assembly was set upon with state violence because arbitrary and excessive special powers were granted to the police, via a rushed regulation made on a Saturday, with no good cause and in defiance our implied constitutional rights to engage in political expression.
I saw with my own eyes something I had hoped to never see, but the video footage that is spreading across social media is all the evidence that any of us need to see the descent of NSW into a police state. We saw people of the #Muslim faith who were #praying set upon, dragged, assaulted and thrown to the ground. We saw dozens of armed police charging at peaceful members of our community.
Charging horses, #chemicalweapons, unprovoked #assault and #severe #policeviolence. These should never be the tools of law enforcement and their presence on #Sydney streets must be a wake-up call to all of us.”
