{"id":10698,"date":"2025-08-23T23:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T03:57:28","slug":"brutal-arrest-of-australian-white-nationalist-for-fighting-back-against-a-homeless-man-who-attacked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Brutal Arrest of Australian White Nationalist for Fighting Back Against A Homeless Man Who Attacked Him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Australia &#8211; News<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nationalist leader arrested for fighting back against Melbourne march attacker<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sewell-arrest-2-768x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13047\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/2025\/08\/22\/\"><time>August 22, 2025<\/time><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/author\/the-noticer\/\">The Noticer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian nationalist activist Thomas Sewell has been arrested over an incident where a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/thomas-sewell-attacked-melbourne-nsn-protest\/\">homeless man attacked him as he was leading a demonstration through Melbourne\u2019s CBD<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Footage obtained by Noticer News shows Mr Sewell, the leader of political organisation White Australia, being handcuffed at his in-laws\u2019 home on Friday morning after police threatened to break a glass door down with a battering ram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After first telling Mr Sewell that he wasn\u2019t being charged and was only being asked to attend a voluntary interview over an alleged affray and assault, officers said he would be arrested if he did not come outside, and that they \u201cdidn\u2019t need\u201d signed documents to take him into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLook what you\u2019re doing to my family \u2013 you know I haven\u2019t committed a crime,\u201d Mr Sewell told the officers, who did not have their body worn cameras attached, after opening the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou have no legal right to be here, you\u2019re trespassing on this property.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the officers said \u201cThomas you need to come with us\u201d, and when Mr Sewell asked if he was under arrest, the officer then said \u201cyes, you are\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere we go, we\u2019re under arrest, you didn\u2019t say that before, did you?\u201d Mr Sewell replied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am under arrest for defending myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Sewell then told the officer he was a \u201cthug and a goon\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a goon for the Jews, that\u2019s what you are, that\u2019s all you are, you\u2019re a goon for the Jews,\u201d he said as he was taken away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=NoticerNews&#038;dnt=false&#038;embedId=twitter-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_12701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF2061-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12701\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(supplied)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Video footage of the march by the National Socialist Network through Melbourne\u2019s CBD earlier this months shows a man running up to Mr Sewell as he walked at the head of a column of about 150 activists, spitting at him and punching him multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video shows Mr Sewell responding with punches of his own before knocking the man to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said after the march that a man of no fixed address was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos of Mr Sewell taken after the march show him with cuts to his ear and temple, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noticer.news\/thomas-sewell-police-intimidation-trial-delayed\/\">earlier this week he told reporters<\/a> that he had also suffered a back injury as a result of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was attacked by a deluded deranged person that decided to jump in front of the \u2018White man fight back\u2019 rally,\u201d he said, and showed journalists the injuries to the side of his head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were performing a peaceful demonstration in the city, which we have the right to do as Australian citizens, I was attacked at the front of that rally by a deranged lunatic, and I defended myself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Header image: Left, Mr Sewell being arrested. Right, the clash with the homeless man (supplied).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia &#8211; News Nationalist leader arrested for fighting back against Melbourne march attacker Australian nationalist activist Thomas Sewell has been arrested over an incident where a homeless man attacked him as he was leading a demonstration through Melbourne\u2019s CBD. 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