Andy's exact statement was "I have reason to believe that this could be linked to my role as an MP & the positions I have taken on the pandemic response".
While the incident clearly devolved, new statements from VicPol, Andy & his daughter all state it started about graffiti.
While the incident clearly devolved, new statements from VicPol, Andy & his daughter all state it started about graffiti.
Since then it's emerged that Andy's daughter holds extreme views that Nazi's should be violently killed. Clearly nobody likes Nazi's but "there's no place for violence in disagreement" should go both ways, especially since Andy has been labelling all protestors Nazi's for weeks.
While this incident should be persued to the full extent of the law, nobody should have been intimidated or injured, the scale at which this blew up due to Meddick's claims about it being linked to the pandemic bill is truly unbelievable.
Claiming a violent attack on someone happened due to politics, who has publicly said they would violently attack someone else due to politics, is possibly the most zero-sum game possible. Hopefully this attitude can leave society as fast as this story will leave the news cycle.
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