The lawyer for the men rammed and detained by tactical police in Liverpool is considering suing NSW Police after the dramatic arrests.
Ahmed Dib, a prominent Sydney lawyer, told this masthead the men are aged between 18 and their early 20s, and were arrested without evidence.
Dib said the tactical police threatened to “stomp their heads in” and called them terrorists – a label and belief system the men entirely reject.
“We grow up in the most beautiful country in the world,” Dib said.
“This is a country built on principles and for us to assume, without any evidence, these people are terrorists, we are not better than those countries that we say we are above.”
Dib said the men were not pursued and interdicted by the police because they were going to launch an attack, or because they were on a watch list.
Instead, he said, someone reported overhearing the group talk about “Bondi 2.0”.
Dib said he would sue the police for the damage to the group’s car, and their physical injuries.
The men were released on Friday afternoon.