Sky News host rowandean says state premiers “made a mockery of this nation and the loyalty of its people” after Black Lives Matter protests went ahead in cities across Australia, contrary to coronavirus social distancing rules.
Sky News host Rowan Dean says state premiers “made a mockery of this nation and the loyalty of its people” after Black Lives Matter protests went ahead in cities across Australia, contrary to coronavirus social distancing rules. “If a single person dies from a coronavirus infection traced back to any of yesterday’s Black Lives Matter demonstrations, everybody responsible for that death from the premier to the police commissioner to the judges must immediately resign,” Mr Dean said.
On Saturday tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Australia’s cities to take part in anti racism demonstrations, spurred on by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in the United States. “Or this this all a con? Were the states denying us our constitutional rights and had no authority to shut down our businesses and shut down our lives,” Mr Dean said. “If so then the premiers, the police chiefs and those chief medial officers lied and they must go.
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