THE County Court of Victoria has ruled that police used unlawful force when they ambushed, injured and arrested law activist Nick Patterson on a Melbourne street three years ago.
Patterson and a small group of his supporters were staging their own protest march through Melbourne on May 29th, 2021, after police and the Labor thug and then-Premier Dan Andrews locked down Melburnians into 5km zones.
After an argument with police on the street Patterson and his group eventually agreed to move on but were stalked along the other side of the street by a squad of armed police wearing facial coverings. The police then crossed the road and began to attack Patterson and company with mace, swinging punches and attempting to headlock and floor whoever they could.
Patterson, an experienced cage fighter, did not attack police and simply defended himself best he could. He was wrestled to the ground and suffered a broken shoulder. He and his friend Adam Roob were charged with multiple offences including intentionally and recklessly causing injury, assaulting an emergency worker on duty, common law assault and resisting an emergency worker on duty. Patterson was held in jail for a month.
During the pre-trial hearing in May 2024, Patterson’s lawyer Mr Nayel, submitted that part of the prosecution’s burden of proof at trial must include proof beyond reasonable doubt that the ordered lockdown was lawful, pursuant to the provisions of the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008.
Mr Nayel submitted that the lockdown was unlawful because the Minister of Health’s decision did not declare a state of emergency in compliance with sections 3 and 5 of the Act. The court rejected the argument.
Judge Gaynor was scathing of police actions which she described as unwarranted violence and ordered their evidence in the charges against Patterson and his friend Adam Roob as inadmissable, meaning all charges will be dropped. Patterson is now seeking a not guilty ruling and an apology.
Cairns News notes that the violent arrest of Patterson was one of multiple blatant acts of police state thuggery that were overseen and endorsed by Andrews and his Labor Party gang in power at the time.
Equally culpable was the Coalition government of Scott Morrison and the various state premiers, ministers and bureaucrats, most of whom have resigned or moved on to corporate jobs with their 30 pieces of silver.
