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Footage of police officer boasting about punching Sydney anti-Herzog protester raises questions about conduct (www.theguardian.com)

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Guardian Australia understands the video relates to legal proceedings from a protester who was charged with assaulting police. They were one of three protesters who on Friday had the charges against them dropped.

Police have now withdrawn charges against four of the 30 protesters charged in the wake of the protest. The three protesters who had their charges withdrawn on Friday were scheduled to face a joint hearing alongside 22 others in July 2027.

A petition launched in June by the NSW Council for Civil Liberties calling for the charges against all the anti-Herzog protesters to be dropped has almost 3,000 signatures.

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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

All of this support for Israel (plus a couple other things, but mainly this) are the reason why the Labor Party is cooked.

It is cooked, too. It can’t react to Hanson, it’s like a passenger jet trying to outmanoeuvre a fighter jet.

Worse still, because the groups attached to Hanson are all anti-Semites (not anti Zionists) they are promoting opposition to Australia’s Israel issue and are co opting it.

The Labor Party can blame itself for it as well. Kicking around our most disadvantaged at the same time has just made it worse.

That byelection result in WA is a bellwether for how the country feels. Shame most of us are too prejudiced, too ego driven or too peer pressured to put the vote where it should go.