Police have used capsicum spray on a group of neo-Nazis who disrupted an asylum seeker rally in Melbourne's Docklands last night.

In short:

Police used capsicum spray on neo-Nazis who disrupted an asylum seeker rally in Melbourne last night.

The group was clad in black and chanted white supremacist slogans while holding an offensive banner.

Police said no arrests were made and nobody was injured.

  • brisk
    13·
    2 months ago

    Am I missing something or does the article not make sense?

    Police formed a line to separate the far-right group from a group of around 300 asylum seeker demonstrators and were forced to use capsicum spray.

    Victoria Police said there were no arrests and no reports of injury and they are reviewing footage of the incident.

    So did they choose not to arrest neo-nazis breaking the law or did they deploy chemical weapons on people that weren’t breaking the law?

    • eurekaEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I don’t see the contradiction, they sprayed them as a deterrent without making an arrest. (And apparently chemical irritation doesn’t count as an injury)