Police Clear Police Over Use Of Pepper Spray At Anti-Pyne Protest

Well that settles it, the police were not using ecessive force and the demonstators were in the wrong as I argued previously

This nation has officially gone to the dogs and I don't mean the protesters.

Nauseated
 

At 0:21 seconds into the video the senior officer's left hand can be seen grabbing at a female protester's right shoulder - blue t-shirt from behind and holding on until0:27

Actually the officer is trying to push this woman away because she is clearly trying to get through the doorway  that he is standing in

at which point the protester is turned to face the officer who then grabs her right arm.

She certainly turns but its of her own volition because she is till intent on getting through the doorway.

At 0:30 the protestor has been restrained & prevented from moving back as instructed for the past 9 seconds, the senior officer then lines her up, takes aim and sprays her eyes at point blank range.

The only people preventing her moving back are her fellow protestors

This protester was restrained and posed absolutely no threat to the officer, so denying her the ability to retreat with her colleagues, then spraying her eyes with a chemical weapon was an open & shut case of police brutality.The abundance of cameras present during this incident proves this fascist knows he can act with impunity under Abbott & Baird's regimes.

This was not a "peaceful protest" and as such no reasonable person would expect the police to behave any differently they only used sufficent force to  exclude the protestors from the building where they had no lawful reason to enter.

As I noted in the earlier thread the protestors clearly expected to and even wanted the police to use CS spray because they had large bottles of milk ( the treatment for CS exposure) on hand for that eventuality.

Sigh!!!!!!!

Nauseated
 

At 0:06 superintendent fascist demonstrated his physical prowess by pushing, with consumate ease,  a group of protesters away from the door, with at least two hitting the floor, so your premise that "the officer is trying to push this woman away" ...by clearly restraining - holding onto her for 11 seconds is complete drivel.

The police imperative here is clearly to both prevent the students from entering the building while using the absolute minimum amount of force necessary and of course trying to avoid causing those students any sort of  harm, as unpleasant as CS is, it causes no permanent damage. You see I may be an old codger now but I have participated in the odd demo myself in my younger days and this mob of "students" were clearly not trying to "peacefully demonstrate" they were trying to provoke the police so its a bot rich to now complain that they got that which they wanted to happen.   

Dx2013
 

Mind you, these were not the social- economically poor students. They were those socialist alliance prats.

Ah yes the good old "silvertail socialists" who can easily go home to mumsie or daddy when they run a bit short of beer money or when they have spent their money on other personal indulgences.