{"id":88258,"date":"2021-10-06T16:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88258"},"modified":"2021-10-06T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:26:46","slug":"insane-videos-show-australian-cops-battering-grocery-shoppers-protesters-fighting-back-chanting-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=88258","title":{"rendered":"Insane Videos Show Australian Cops Battering Grocery Shoppers, Protesters Fighting Back, Chanting \u201cFREEDOM\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Melbourne has been locked down for 245 days, the longest stretch in the world<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->By Steve Watson<br \/>\nSummit News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footage out of Melbourne Australia this past weekend shows a squad of riot police harassing and beating grocery shoppers attempting to buy food and coffee before returning home, while a second video captured angry protesters fighting back, chasing the police away and loudly chanting \u201cFREEDOM\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screenshot-2021-10-04-at-12.13.05.png?itok=dtRACo9T\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Screenshot-2021-10-04-at-12.13.05.png?itok=dtRACo9T\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Screenshot-2021-10-04-at-12.13.05.png?itok=dtRACo9T\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"6426aee4-a37d-4b21-b52f-c849e45d208a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The insane video resembles\u00a0<strong>something out of a dystopian nightmare movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Watch (WARNING, Strong language throughout):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vko1et\/?pub=4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The city is STILL under lockdown after 245 days, making it the l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-10-03\/melbourne-longest-lockdown\/100510710\">ongest lockdown anywhere in the world<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/oct\/02\/victoria-covid-vaccine-mandate-unions-welcome-move-as-protesters-clash-with-police-in-melbourne\">vaccine mandates have been announced<\/a>\u00a0for all state workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-04.jpg?itok=ngaNq7p_\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-04.jpg?itok=ngaNq7p_\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-10-04.jpg?itok=ngaNq7p_\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"11cee76e-8146-4940-b6a4-81a3924be4c3\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protesters took to the streets and police struggled to contain all of them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/vko1jt\/?pub=4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Workers in the state of Victoria, including retail workers, personal trainers, MPs, journalists, faith leaders, judges, police, lawyers, cleaners, farmers, spa workers, actors and professional sports people have been ordered to get vaccinated within the next fortnight or risk losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of protesters were arrested by police who stormed Melbourne\u2019s Royal Botanical Gardens:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-04_7-56-28.jpg?itok=PiMJbXj0\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-10-04_7-56-28.jpg?itok=PiMJbXj0\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-10-04_7-56-28.jpg?itok=PiMJbXj0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"d01643d0-961c-44a4-a5a4-c9092059fabc\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian Prime Minister Daniel Andrews dismissed suggestions that the mandate infringes on people\u2019s freedoms, declaring \u201cI\u2019m not taking lectures on freedom from people who will hold all of us back.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s too much at stake,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Andrews further proclaimed, adding \u201cWe\u2019re not making this decision for fun; we\u2019re not making it lightly or flippantly. This is what has to be done to get us open.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/10\/01\/australia-police-want-no-fly-zones-over-massive-anti-government-protests\/\">reported last week<\/a>, Police in Australia are pushing for the government to declare no-fly zones over the sites of mass protests to discourage more people from rising up and joining those already on the streets raging against the medical tyranny being imposed upon the country.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/10\/04\/insane-videos-show-australian-cops-battering-grocery-shoppers-protesters-fighting-back-chanting-freedom\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2021\/10\/04\/insane-videos-show-australian-cops-battering-grocery-shoppers-protesters-fighting-back-chanting-freedom\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne has been locked down for 245 days, the longest stretch in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}