APEC Police not in any way being violent

Photographer thrown to ground by police for daring to film removal of screaming woman. (Footage from Channel 7 news Melbourne, reproduced under fair use provisions of the relevant Act.)

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• APEC
• police
• photographer
• violence
• Sydney

[badpanda84]

@blakeyonthebuses Well if the cop tell someone to move on and you tell them to fuck off in most other countries you would get beaten up. Only in Australia do we think that we can tell the cops to get fucked and they wont don anything about it

[SO17Alpha]

@anonleft

APEC...big deal..new powers, the have a job, she didn't listen to their orders..she cops it!

[NiTr091]

hahaha that was a good throw you gotta admit

[badpanda84]

@ILIKEWALLS Yes and as a memeber of the press it dosent give them the right to do whatever they want -- they still have to get back like everyone else

[badpanda84]

@ILIKEWALLS Still I would like to her you answer as to what exactly you expect police to do if they have been instructed to clear the crowd ( which is there job) and the protestors tell them to get fucked and refuse to leave.

In a nightclubs and pubs we just throw them out ( and if necessarly choke them out.)

[ILIKEWALLS]

@badpanda84 ah, you are a security guard. that explains why you have a such a warped view of authority

[ILIKEWALLS]

@badpanda84 the woman wasnt arrested, she was assaulted, big difference

[ILIKEWALLS]

@badpanda84 SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE FUCKING PRESS YOU IDIOT

[ILIKEWALLS]

@badpanda84 yes they would, if the patron wasnt doing anything but taking pictures

[badpanda84]

I do security /crowd control work and people get kick out and ejected all the time like that -- its hardly newsworthy

[badpanda84]

@ILIKEWALLS "there are just as many police present at major sporting events and in fairness more violence, but sports events dont inevitably end in "

But that is because sporting event are more controlled-- for a start you have security checking bags ,, montinoring intoxicated patrons ,, controling where people can drink etc..  and if a patron in a sporting event was ejected like on the video no one would be claiming bruatitly.

[badpanda84]

@ILIKEWALLS "she was taking pictures in the middle of the street nowhere near police"

firstly the video clearly says she chased after that women ( who the police arrested) therefore its not like she was just peacefully walking around filming..

And secondly typically when the cop arrest someone the alway get people to move back ( last thing the cops want is to get kinghit when attempting to arrest someone).