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NSW police kettled a bunch of folks in Central Station, Sydney, and pepper-sprayed them in a confined space.

It's hard to imagine this happening if the police weren't there, and people could just go home.

Thread, with CW for police violence…

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney
Here's NSW police aggressively pushing folks back, and then forming a line so folks can't escape the station.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney

Inside the station, you can see folks are bunched up, with the police blocking the exit. The use of pepper-spray was caught on camera.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney

Here's video footage of the same event.

The Sydney protests have been peaceful all day; it's hard to understand why NSW police would be pushing folks into a confined space and yelling at them if they didn't want conflict.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia

Who helps the folks who have been attacked by police-wielded chemical weapons? Is it the police?

Of course not. It's other regular folks who are there. Police don't protect us; we protect *each other*.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney

Here's another view of police kettling folks at Central Station, crowding folks together and blocking off exits.

In none of these videos cops are wearing masks, so A+ for pandemic management.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney

Multiple reports that NSW police denied media entrance to the station.

That would have been a good tactic back in the 90s, but now that smartphones exist, it just makes the police look bad at covering things up.

#blacklivesmatteraustralia #sydney

This made the mainstream news, so I'm going to leave you with this segment on how much of Australia would have seen the incident.

We absolutely need to address police racism and violence in Australia, just as much as in the US. #blacklivesmatter #sydney

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