Police have used pepper spray on a group of protestors at Sydney's main railway station in an attempt to break up a small but volatile crowd following a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter event in the CBD.
Police have used pepper spray on a group of protestors at Sydney's main railway station in an attempt to break up a small but volatile crowd following a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter event in the CBD.
Footage posted to social media, shows at least one officer spraying into the crowd as demonstrators and the police came together. At least half a dozen people were treated following the incident. Officers had formed a line in an attempt to move on the group at Central Station. Another man was dragged away by police and later handcuffed, however it is understood he was not charged.
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