Victoria’s police union has defended the controversial arrest of a pregnant woman in Ballarat, saying officers treated her with “respect”.
of them arresting a pregnant mother in front of her kids was posted to social media.
Zoe Lee was outraged when she was handcuffed in her Ballarat home ahead of anti-lockdown protest planned for this Saturday.“You wouldn’t believe the amount of things that come out of the blue with search warrants,” Mr Gatt said on Friday morning.They have to take reasonable precautions, but I’ll say this, those handcuffs were off nearly as soon as they were on that person in custody, once that scene had been secured.
“They don’t choose to do that, they would much prefer to be doing other things right now as we stand here.
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