AUSTRALIAN POLICE CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTORS DEMANDING ISRAEL ARMS EMBARGO
September 13, 2024Australian police launched a brutal crackdown today on thousands of anti-war protesters outside a weapons convention in Melbourne.
About 1,800 police were deployed and used pepper spray, flash distraction devices and rubber bullets on protesters outside the huge biennial Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition.
The protesters held large flags and signs and chanted “Shame” and “Shut it down” and “Stop arming Israel”.
At least 39 people were arrested for offences such as assault, arson and obstruction after exchanges during which the police accused the protesters of hurling bottles, rocks and horse manure.
Police also said that its officers were sprayed with liquid irritants. They said at least 24 officers required medical treatment.
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English Script:
Police: Move over.
Protestors: This is not a police state. We have the right to demonstrate.
Jasmin Duff: The police violence we’ve seen here today is totally unprecedented and totally unwarranted.
Protestors: Shame on you. Israel out of Gaza. Israel out of Palestine.
Nathalie Farah: We are doing everything that we can to let these delegates know that we don’t want this conference to take place here in the city, and we want to make it uncomfortable for them to come here and sign million-dollar contracts, to basically sell weapons.
Police: Put your hands behind your back.
Shane Patton: I want to say, how appalled I am at the conduct of a large amount of the protesters. They come here to protest against antiwar. So presumably anti violence. The only way I can describe them is a bunch of hypocrites. I’ll call them protesters, for lack of a better descriptor, but 39 criminals have been arrested, for their conduct, for their confrontational conduct.
Protestors: The people united, will never be defeated.
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