‘Kettling’ and ‘charging’ Monday’s protest crowd was entirely inappropriate.
🚨 Who ordered the police present to do it, and how high did the decision go?
▪️Kettling is a robust physical police crowd control technique of encirclement.
▪️It was used on Monday initially as containment to stop any marching….
▪️However, it was then used as corralling for a phalanx of police apparently ordered to violently charge the crowd, shouting and running with horses and pepper spray and shoving running people, so causing the expected panic and fleeing.
▪️This is a particular violent control measure uncalled for on the slowly-dispersing peaceful but noisy crowd on Monday.
▪️Kettling is a risky technique and on other occasions has led to serious injury causing hospitalisation of fleeing crowd members, and even one death in another place.
👉 Here is film of the kettling used by police on the crowd outside the Sydney Town Hall on Monday. 👇
Incontrovertible evidence of the police hemming in protesters, preventing them from leaving(kettling) and attacking them.
They started this from before the speeches had even ended. The police commissioner is proud of this. He needs to resign with Minns.