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Police deploy pepper spray and dodge projectiles as protests held in Melbourne, Sydney, Byron Bay and Brisbane

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Victoria police arrested 235 protesters and three officers remained in hospital on Saturday evening following violent anti-lockdown demonstrations in Melbourne’s inner city.

As the state recorded 535 new cases and one death, around 1,000 protesters gathered in the north-eastern suburbs of Richmond and Hawthorn, forced to make a last-minute change of location after 2,000 police officers formed a “ring of steel” around the Melbourne CBD.

The Victoria police commander Mark Galliott told reporters on Saturday 235 protesters were arrested, including 193 people who would also be fined for breaching the public health orders.

He said the remaining group were arrested for a range of offences including assaulting police, riotous behaviour, weapons and drug offences.
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Galliott said of the 10 officers injured, six were hospitalised and three remained there with injuries including torn muscles, broken bones and bruises.

Police said they had items including stones, bottles and other objects thrown at them during the protests, while others were injured when they were trampled on by demonstrators.

“What we saw today was a group of protesters that came together not to protest freedoms, but simply to take on and have a fight with the police,” Galliott said.

“That’s what we say, were angry, aggressive young males there to fight the police.”

Galliott also defended the police operation, which aimed to keep the protesters out of the CBD, saying it was a “great preventative measure”.

Public transport to and from the city was suspended between 8am and 2pm on Saturday, and police set up road checkpoints, barricades and roving patrols around the city in an effort to thwart the protest.

Barricades of police officers originally managed to confine protesters on Burnley Street in Richmond. That was until some protesters opened the locked gate to a residential apartment complex, allowing them to escape authorities on to Bridge Road.

Footage from the ground showed protesters clashing with police on several occasions.

At one point, protesters were filmed throwing objects – including water bottles and a traffic cone – at police, who had formed a human barricade, blocking the march. In response, police deployed pepper spray.

.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/18/victoria-and-nsw-lockdown-protests-violent-clashes-as-police-arrest-demonstrators

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OZschwitz Slave Pen: anti-lockdown protests: violent clashes as police arrest demonstrators

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