At least 235 people were arrested and 10 police officers injured following a large anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, Australia
There were 2,000 police officers in the Melbourne central business district to prevent large protest groups from coming together, Victoria Police Commander Mark Galliott said."What we saw today was a group of protesters that came together, not to protest freedoms, but simply to take on and have a fight with the police," Galliott told reporters."That's what we saw were angry, aggressive young males, they had to fight the police not to protest about freedom.
He also said if the officials had not taken preventative measures to shut down the public transport system and enforcing the vehicle checkpoints, there could have been thousands of protesters in the city. According to police, about 500 to 700 protesters were in Melbourne's central business district on Saturday. Read MoreThe state of Victoria extended its lockdown earlier this month for another three weeks after tough restrictions failed to lower the number of daily new coronavirus cases.
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