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🔗 NSW police considering ‘extraordinary’ powers to search pro-Palestine protesters
The fact this is being contemplated is an absolute disgrace.
The cops seem to regularly declare areas of potential trouble around Melbourne a stop-n-search area, eg, Moomba was one. How would this be different? What makes it a disgrace?
The right to protest should be protected. No matter what. The police want to call this particular protest "illegal", and enacting these powers to search will have a chilling effect. The Human Rights Law Centre has condemned the NSW police minister and police for this.
The protest organisers are seeking to work with police on their concerns. Nobody should be subject to arbitrary search and compulsory identification simply for exercising their right to freely assemble.
"Designated areas" in Victoria should also be criticised, but teenagers don't have a human right to carry a flick knife.
Also don't understand why it's a disgrace. Seems like a reasonable (potential) harm-reduction measure to me
Compulsory identification and warrantless search on all protestors is reasonable?
Why don't we give that power to police 24/7?