Queensland police say officer acted appropriately in incident that injured Brisbane refugee protester

Queensland police say a video in which an officer appears to hit a refugee protester in the head at a Brisbane rally on Sunday makes the incident “appear far worse than it is”.

But Jeff Rickertt, the man who was injured in the incident, rejected the police assessment of the incident as “complete nonsense”.

“I felt the force of the blow. My initial reaction was that I’d been hit by a fist,” Mr Rickertt said after being released from hospital on Monday afternoon.

He said…