{"id":4789,"date":"2020-11-03T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:14:31","slug":"police-trap-bash-lockdown-protesters-in-melbourne-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4789","title":{"rendered":"Police TRAP &#038; BASH lockdown protesters in Melbourne today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Police TRAP &amp; BASH lockdown protesters in Melbourne today<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/aviyemini\">Avi Yemini<\/a><\/li><li>|<\/li><li>November 03, 2020<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/police_trap_attack_lockdown_protesters_in_melbourne_today?utm_campaign=ay_vicprotna_uk_11_3_20&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=therebel\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Today, police in Melbourne trapped, pepper-sprayed, beat, arrested and fined anyone who dared exercise their fundamental human right to protest.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The hundreds who attended the organised rally outside the State Parliament from noon were met with brute force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.rebelnews.com\/police_trap_attack_lockdown_protesters_in_melbourne_today?utm_campaign=ay_vicprotna_uk_11_3_20&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=therebel\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Protesters were demanding an end to all remaining lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many were also calling for premier Daniel Andrews to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s protest comes as the state recorded it&#8217;s fourth consecutive days of no new Coronavirus cases. The rolling 14-day average of new COVID cases in Victoria is only 1.9 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On June 6,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tr.news\/blm-melbourne\/\" target=\"_blank\">the state allowed tens of thousands to rally for Black Lives Matter<\/a>.&nbsp;There were four new cases that day, but the police didn&#8217;t arrest the organisers or protesters; they took a knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police TRAP &amp; BASH lockdown protesters in Melbourne today By&nbsp;Avi Yemini | November 03, 2020 Today, police in Melbourne trapped, pepper-sprayed, beat, arrested and fined anyone who dared exercise their fundamental human right to protest. The hundreds who attended the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=4789\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}