EXTRAORDINARY patience from Victoria Police on show at the Shrine of Remembrance today. If they can get this mob of far right extremists out peacefully, it'll be a miracle. #GetOffOurShrine
Think the police are going to pull this off. Bravo.
Crowds are definitely smaller, so some have definitely been quietly getting out. Police closing in a bit.
Gosh, some shitbags have brought their small kids along. Yuck.
Crowds becoming more abusive, still not leaving, leaving police with very little choice here. If it goes south, it's not because the police haven't tried everything in the book.
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NORTHCOTE: A lady lectures a school kid: "all the animals they experimented vaccines on died" & that the Pfizer CEO said he wouldn't be vaccinated for $2 million before he "ran away." Now discussing false suicide stats and "covid is cold and flu." School kid having none of it.
She's telling the school kid to go to Telegram and do his research, says there are thousands of people on there who are very, very sick. Now giving a very graphic description with some pretty gruesome (false) details.
"PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOUSE, WE NEED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUSE": A frustrated lone rioter in a car sends a plea out over live stream for backup which will never arrive. #MurdochRiots
The man puts out a final desperate plea for someone to join him before his live feed is cut.
His feed is back, however he's accidentally muted his mic without realising, meaning his calls to arms are going unheard. It's tragic.
A lady on a megaphone has told "peaceful protesters" occupying the Shrine of Remembrance to put the weapons they brought to "use against police" in their pockets because they're "here for peace." #GetOffOurShrine
Crowd now chanting "We want war" and "Fuck the jab"
Chant ends abruptly, one man can be heard saying "I don't want peace." Megaphone lady is back trying to calm them down.
Thanks to lockdowns. Without lockdowns cases would be many, many times higher, as would hospitalisations and deaths.
We also must remember that mortality rates will increase when hospitals hit capacity. If we can't treat them, more die.
Everyone has a hard story about lockdown. Nobody likes it. But it's a necessary evil because the alternative is unthinkable. When hospitals are full, it won't just be covid cases dying unnecessarily. There'll be many non-covid related deaths that could easily have been prevented.
There has not been any increase in suicides because of lockdowns. That myth has never been backed up with any figures. It is pure retail politics; a brutal lie. There is a mental health crisis, and there has been for years. It's amazing just who's ready to speak about it now.