#nswpol — Public Fediverse posts
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NSW Police say they intend to “crack down” on criminal gangs.
It’s almost as if cracking down on civil protesters exercising their democratic rights was something of an error and that cracking down on organised crime was more important all along.
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NSW Police say they intend to “crack down” on criminal gangs.
It’s almost as if cracking down on civil protesters exercising their democratic rights was something of an error and that cracking down on organised crime was more important all along.
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NSW Police say they intend to “crack down” on criminal gangs.
It’s almost as if cracking down on civil protesters exercising their democratic rights was something of an error and that cracking down on organised crime was more important all along.
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NSW Police say they intend to “crack down” on criminal gangs.
It’s almost as if cracking down on civil protesters exercising their democratic rights was something of an error and that cracking down on organised crime was more important all along.
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Footage of police officer boasting about punching Sydney anti-Herzog protester raises questions about conduct
"Video footage has emerged capturing a New South Wales police officer boasting about “punching” a protester in the head “when he was down”, before the protester was charged with assaulting police.
Police body-worn camera footage, which was leaked to a social media account and widely shared over the weekend, reveals a male police officer telling his colleagues during the 9 February protest at Sydney town hall against a visit by the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog: “I f*cking pumped that c*nt.”
A female officer can be heard replying, “So funny,” before the male officer says: “Then I punched him in the head when he was down.”"
The Minns LaborFail government have always had a problem with ThugCops like these, it's how Minns likes it.
#BoycottIsrael #LaborFail #MinnsFail #NSWPol #AUSPol #HumanRights #Activism #News
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NSW cops showing who they are, backed by corrupt Zionist politicians, they'll keep beating you up there.
Time to make Minns aware of your complete lack of respect for the NSW Police and their fascist attitude toward citizens of the state:
Footage of police officer boasting about punching Sydney anti-Herzog protester raises questions about conduct
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This seems to have been pretty quiet on #NSWPol mastodon.
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They keep talking about "the left" of the Liberal Party.
I've never heard of this?
Is this just Libs that smoke weed?
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"I suggest to you that evidence is fabricated Mr Perrottet"
Has to be one of the greatest lines in ICAC
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It was sickening though also enlightening to hear NSW Premier #ChrisMinns on the radio (ABC) this morning. It helpfully clarified that fundamentally, the public reason for all the chaos in Sydney's CBD last night, the reason Minns insisted NSW police prevent any march from occurring, is at its core quite deeply bigoted and racist.
What Minns admitted to in that interview this morning is that he did not trust rally organisers to do what they said they would do. He did not trust that a rally route ending at parliament house wouldn't actually be a Trojan horse for protesters to suddenly break off through police lines and go rampaging on a pogrom through the streets, looking for Jewish people to harm. That is why there couldn't be a march.
Something like 100 rallies organised by the same people, at which we have followed the agreed route every time. A hundred rallies without any arrests for violence or flouting lawful police directions (indeed, the only charges of violence in the context of 28 months of anti-genocide protest are from a police officer recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to a political candidate who ran against Prime Minister Albanese and came second to him in his electorate).
#NSWpol #NSWPolice #protest #Sydney #Gadigal #CriminalisationOfDIssent #HerzogNotWelcome
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Chris Minns, NSW Premier: "for the sake of Social Cohesion™, we're inviting a wanted war criminal from a rogue state to visit, granting police extraordinary emergency powers to forcefully suppress the expression of non-approved messages in non-approved locations, and installing extra Social Cohesion™ fences and barriers in the middle of the city. In order to ensure maximum Social Cohesion™ please don't come into the city, and if you do, then disobeying the instructions of one of the 3,000 Social Cohesion™ officers will result in a $5,000 fine. This is for your own good. You will cohere, or else."
#NSWpol #CivilLiberties #CriminalisationOfDissent #IsaacHerzog #Herzog #ChrisMinns #NSWLabor #Gadi #Sydney #SydneyNews #NSWPolice #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime
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CW: Chris Minns: you're picking today to attack an anti-racist movement (again)? #auspol #InvasionDay #26thJan #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWpol
Premier Minns, you claim that your draconian suppression of criticism is motivated by pubic safety and wellbeing.
How does it make Aboriginal people more safe to face increased police powers, when racialised violence from NSW police is one of the core complaints Aboriginal people want to raise with your administration?
Your new anti-protest laws have been used precisely *once* so far: to shut down a peaceful walk by an Aboriginal man accompanied by a few hundred friends, who intended to walk a few hundred metres, not disrupting any traffic or making anyone's life harder. To stop this, your government thought it was worth allocating about as many police officers as there were protesters, in order to physically prevent this dangerous and divisive event from occurring, using extreme force if necessary. What was the grievance of this individual and his friends? The racist violence of NSW police against his people. Yep, that's the perfect moment to premiere these shiny new anti-protest laws.
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CW: A note to non-Australians about Australia Day, 26 January
@futzle Every year, the 26th January sees Invasion Day protest marches and other events mourning genocide and dispossession, celebrating the survival of many of the oldest continuous cultures in the world, and expressing ongoing resistance led by local Indigenous peoples across the continent.
In Gadi (Sydney), most years see tens of thousands of people march from the city to the Yabun festival in Vic Park.
This year will be especially important, given the NSW government's efforts to suppress protest in the name of 'social cohesion' (because denying people a voice has always turned out really well for long-term cohesion, right?). Organisers are planning to march, even if the government extends the anti-protest laws for another two weeks. The more people show up, the less likely it is that the authorities decide to cause trouble.
#InvasionDay #26thJan #jan26 #Auspol #Indigenous #protest #ProtestIsNotACrime #SocialCohesion #NSWpol #SuppressionOfDissent #CriminalisationOfDissent
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Today's enormous march was also a powerful repudiation of Premier Chris Minns' attempts to criminalise and demonise public protest in NSW over the last 21 months—efforts that have seen Premier Minns awarded a special medal by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, an individual many believe to be guilty of the crime of incitement to genocide due to numerous public statements he has made in support of the Netanyahu government's genocidal campaign in Gaza. Minns has faced no public consequence from his federal counterparts for accepting this award, despite the notorious origin of the award, and despite the apparent over-reach of a state government official receiving an award for a foreign power for his efforts in suppressing public criticism of that power (as a state representative, he is not meant to meddle in federal foreign policy).
Minns attempts to stifle this march were rejected by the NSW Supreme Court yesterday in a powerful ruling affirming the fact that protest will always involve inconvenience and disruption, and consequently, NSW Police were directed to facilitate rather than suppress today's march.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckirKaU8_94
#ChrisMinns #NSWpol #protest #CriminalisationOfDissent #NSWSupremeCourt #NSWpolice #IsaacHerzog #IncitementToGenocide #MarchForHumanity #Sydney #Gadigal
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NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns does not seem to have come across a protest that he doesn't want to ban—with PM Albanese and federal Labor backing him up at almost every step of the way.
Feels like these Labor leaders might need a little refresher on the history of the labour movement they purport to represent...
#NSWpol #Auspol #CriminalisationOfDissent #ChrisMinns #AnthonyAlbanese #ALP
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CW: Creeping police state
Did you know: there are protesters in Australia who allegedly committed acts that just a few months ago would have been legally considered minor traffic offences, yet who are now facing months or years locked up, and are currently under bail conditions that effectively prevent them from going online at all, from being able to contact many/most of their friends, and who are subject to the complete loss of any right to privacy (being able to have all their devices searched by police at any point, and they must share any passwords)? And all this without yet having been convicted of any crime, while awaiting trial for alleged offences that just nine months ago would have most likely been resolved with a fine of a few hundred dollars.
#CriminalisationOfDissent #auspol #FreeVioletCoco #AusPol2022 #NSWpol
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CW: Criminalisation of Dissent (NSW)
In April 2022, #ClimateJustice protester Deanna “Violet” Coco blocked a single lane of motor vehicle traffic for 25 minutes. On Friday, she was sentenced to 15 months in prison, in a further escalation of #CriminalisationOfDissent in #NSWpol.
Today, conservative NSW Premier Dominic #Perrottet celebrated the penalty, saying it was "pleasing to see", because her #protest "put our way of life at risk" and that protests must never "inconvenience people".
What a puddle of putrid propaganda. The entire point of protest is to be inconvenient. Name a single successful historical protest movement that never inconvenienced anyone.
Just a couple of years ago, this kind of action would most likely have received (at most) a fine of a few hundred dollars. Yet the vulnerability of the status quo is betrayed by Perrottet's line about the risk to "our way of life".
Whose way of life is at risk from which reckless actions? Because the way of life, health, well-being & very lives of billions are being damaged or lost daily by the activities that Violet was protesting. She was, in a small way, trying to defend against far greater harm.
If you want the book thrown at her, what do you want thrown at the dirty energy companies & their political representatives in parliament?
