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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”.
Key points:
- Those at the rally have described watching an officer sprint up to the protester before hitting him
- Acting Assistant Commissioner Brian Conners says the officer’s actions were “appropriate”
- He says police have reviewed video of the incident taken from multiple angles
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…
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