“Victoria Police advised us that there was a high chance of an incident occurring during the championship due to the escalating anti-Israel sentiment in Melbourne.”
If this is true and the cops are back-peddling you’d want to hope that IHA kept the receipts because otherwise they are gonna get tossed under all the buses.
I think there’s possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of ‘incident’ here.
What is meant by ‘incident’? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?
I think there’s probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.
If this is true and the cops are back-peddling you’d want to hope that IHA kept the receipts because otherwise they are gonna get tossed under all the buses.
I think there’s possibly differring definitions or intentionally vague usage of ‘incident’ here.
What is meant by ‘incident’? Just a protest? Non-violent disruption of games? Or arson (as suggested by the mention of the synagogue arson)?
I think there’s probably a lot of wiggle room (even if the advice was in writing) for both the cops and the IHA to claim they intended or understood the advice differently.