More than 10,000 protesters have defied pleas by the NSW Premier and police and marched through Sydney's CBD as part of the Black Lives Matter movement that has swept the world and reignited debate over the treatment of Indigenous Australians
The newly lawful protest was attended by at least 10,000 people. Standing shoulder to shoulder, the mask-clad crowd moved from the steps of Town Hall through the CBD, guided by police in a march towards Belmore Park, which was filled to the brim by 5pm.
"We want to make it a better future for our kids so they don’t have to go through the same stuff we did." Premier Gladys Berejiklian came under intense scrutiny on Friday after she was perceived a day earlier to have given Saturday's protest the go-ahead if it adhered to social distancing.
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