Park known as The Domain cleared of protesters 15 minutes before event was due to start
A protester raises his arms in the air after being apprehended by police on July 28, 2020 in Sydney, Australia.Police arrested a leader of an anti-racism protest and shut down the demonstration before it started Tuesday after courts ruled the gathering in downtown Sydney was illegal due to the coronavirus pandemic threat.
Police outnumbered protesters. Officers told demonstrators to move on as they arrived and the area was cleared 15 minutes before the scheduled start.New South Wales state Assistant Police Commissioner Mick Willing said five protesters were issued 1,000 Australian dollar fines for breaching pandemic crowd restrictions. Another protester was charged with using offensive language.“We understand that the issues that are in question here are significant and are sensitive to a lot of people.
Gibson told Nine Network television hours earlier, “We all must be COVID-safe, but we need to stand together to … say that Black lives matter in Australia.” The demonstrators have gathered more than 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for his prison guards to be charged.A New South Wales Supreme Court judge on Sunday accepted a police submission that the possibility of community transmission of COVID-19 made the demonstration too risky to proceed.
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