Australia no longer even pretends to disguise itself as a democracy, but such brutal violence by police raises grim thoughts about the fact that none of the hundreds of people who witnessed the incident rushed to stop these criminal officers, lawfully neutralize them, and take them to the only place where they belong to rot: prison.
We're all against these pro-palatine protesters and believe that after what the Palestinians did in Israel on October 7, they lost any legitimacy for an independent state. But such a despicable conduct by the police toward a protester evokes horrifying memories from the darkest chapters in human history, and it is deeply disturbing that this is the dark place to which Australia has descended.