New South Wales police arrested 57 people participating in Sydney’s unauthorized protest Saturday against a COVID-19 lockdown, authorities said.
July 24 (UPI) — New South Wales police arrested 57 people participating in Sydney’s unauthorized protest Saturday against a COVID-19 lockdown, authorities said. Along with the 57 arrests, police issued at least 90 penalty infringement notices established a strike force, according to a NSW police statement. Mal Lanyon, deputy commissioner of metropolitan field operations, said the work of the strike force, which will include at least 22 detectives, has begun. « Our officers have already started to identify attendees and will continue for as long as required to identify and prosecute all whose who broke the law today, » Lanyon said. Protesters shouted « freedom » while marching through the Haymarket suburb, which NSW health director Dr. Jeremy McAnulty had declared a COVID-19 hotspot moments earlier, toward the central business district, ABC News Australia reported.
