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1/ Regardless of your view of the recent protests, VicPol have clearly been employing new and far more violent tactics in recent days. It's extremely alarming.
Here's a super thread for #auspol of #VicPolViolence, starting with the well circulated Flinders St Station "arrest":
Here's a super thread for #auspol of #VicPolViolence, starting with the well circulated Flinders St Station "arrest":
2/ A two in one here. A 74 year old lady is pushed to the ground and pepper sprayed by two cops. Simultaneously, a Nine News photographer is also sprayed. Notice the cops aren't the full riot gear ones. It's because many of them are refusing to show up to work.
3/ The high rate of leave (cops have unlimited mental health leave in Vic) leads to fewer, poorly equipped and less well-trained cops to handle protests, making kettling break outs like this one more likely and more violent. Poor tactics from VicPol in a kettle led to this:
