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@DreamDolly, re your q yes I have seen it and just read through it all. Really surprising and heartening to see that the majority of the posts are condemning the police response, very much reflective of what I've seen elsewhere online and off - I think the police brutality was easy to write off for the lockdown protests as it was just a bunch of us lowlife CTs but to see them carrying on like that at a vigil of a murdered woman is clearly a lot harder for people to excuse. I mean it’s spring ffs, we’ve vaccinated a 1/3 of the population and outside transmission is negligible anyway, it seems it may be making clear to some that this ‘temporary’ government overreach doesn’t seem to be winding back at all no matter what we do. Not many really touched on the gravity of the anti-protest bill though.
Either way it seems to have brought the ethics of these restrictions into question and perhaps demonstrated the implications of cowtowing to them - in that the government will try to keep their emergency powers (like we have been saying all along!) which can only be a good thing. The response to the weekend lockdown protests after this will be very interesting indeed.
There’s also fair few different takes on what went on (everywhere I mean). Many took it as an anti-men protest or a vigil that just descended into hysteria and violence after being told to move on. I wasn't there so it's
just my opinion but the outcome was pretty predictable tbh. The police’s idea of telling you to move on is shouting “you’re all being filmed, go home now or you will be arrested” which, you obviously don’t, because you have a human right to protest and the fact they’ve taken that away is the reason why you’re there
Then they descend, batons swinging, shoving and tackling people 6 on 1. Undeniably the agitators. Was only gonna end one way