Roughly 300 protestors turned up at Taylor Square on Oxford Street, Surry Hills, at 8 pm yesterday.
Tensions have flared between the LGBTQ+ community and police at an "unauthorised protest" in Sydney's CBD ahead of the Mardi Gras parade.Crowds were reportedly heard yelling "No cops, No bigots," in relation to police being allowed to march in the Mardi Gras Parade tonight.
"As the group dispersed, they moved onto Goulburn Street, again blocking vehicle traffic before police intervened moving them onto the footpath."Evan van Zijl of activist group Pride in Protest said police violence, intimidation and threats were nothing new."We saw a police officer grab our friend, a trans woman, by her throat. We heard officers threatening to pepper spray a stationary, non-violent crowd.
"Mardi Gras first began back in 1978, and that was a time when people were arrested for being who they are and locked up in Darlinghurst police cells.
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