Melbourne

The British police still love nothing more than a mounted charge on football rioters. Or at a peaceful candlelit vigil if the protestors unhelpfully refuse to become rioters.

I did cackle a bit at the cops complaining about people hurling horse shit.

Gee. I wonder how the protestors got hold of that.

You know the horses also cause serious injuries yeah? Like the whole point of them is so cops can move protestors for fear of being stepped on.

Yep. The whole thing stinks. Cops have a nasty habit of either intentionally escalating, or at the very least, not trying to de-escalate protests and similar large scale events

The police didn't bring any violence, have you watched any footage at all of these fuckwit protesters? They are there to create conflict.

Citrus juice, vinegar and yoghurt all contain / are acid for example

Police condemn protester violence at a literal weapons of war convention.

Meh, the cops kind of had it coming. Objectively poor behaviour, but maybe if the cops went in with respect and tried to de-escalate, things would've been less violent

It could literally be yoghurt or vinegar, if it was actually anything worst they would've stated what it was.

It wasn't a peace march, the organisers called for attendees to carry out citizen's arrests on anyone they believed to be attending the convention. In 7:30's footage you can see random people who have no connection to anything happening trying to walk past and being assaulted by protestors because of how they dress. The language used by the protestors was not "we are here to protest" but instead "we are here to disrupt" so their intentions yesterday were clearly never to be peaceful. In the footage you can also see some of them deliberately and repeatedly running into the police while filming for TikTok so they can be pushed away and scream about police brutality to their viewers.

EDIT: I should make clear that I'm referring to the organisers of the event and those protestors involved in violence. From what I understand there were like 2000 - 3000 people there and clearly not all of them were causing problems.