Victoria police have said they made 15 arrests - 14 for breaking lockdown rules and one for assaulting an officer.
Australian police have made dozens of arrests as anti-lockdown protests are attended by hundreds in Melbourne.Stricter measures were put in place in the country’s’ coronavirus hotspot, many turned out to protest the city’s stage four lockdown while ignoring social-distancing restrictions.
As cases increased, lockdown measures tightened. Since July, Victoria has been in a six-week lockdown to curb Australia’s second-wave, banning businesses and imposing stay-at-home rules.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that15 people were arrested by the police Protesters chant ‘human rights matter’ and ‘freedom’ at the demonstration
‘Let’s not any of us do anything that might jeopardise this strategy. Let’s not any of us do anything that might see more coronavirus cases rather than less.’ ‘It would be five minutes of sunshine and then a third wave that arguably would be even more devastating, than the second. We just have to find a way, to be as steadfast as the virus, it is stubborn.A protester runs up the steps of the Shrine of Remembrance ‘The tail of the second wave is a stubborn thing and we are seeing these numbers come down,’ he said.
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