{"id":368349,"date":"2025-12-24T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T07:04:08","slug":"perth-man-arrested-after-allegedly-praising-bondi-beach-gunmen-in-social-media-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368349\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth man arrested after allegedly praising Bondi Beach gunmen in social media post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Glynn argued he collected flags, and owned more than 50.<\/p>\n<p>In relation to his social media posts, he said he was a supporter of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I\u2019m a doomsday prepper, I have information downloaded, I\u2019ve had the time, I\u2019ve had the money, but I don\u2019t intend to harm anyone, I haven\u2019t followed through with procuring anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep to myself, my neighbours hardly know me, I\u2019ve never had an issue with the law. I\u2019m not a violent person, I\u2019m quite the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Ben Tyers said the alleged actions, reported to police by a member of the public, represented a danger to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing illegal or improper with supporting the Palestinian cause, what is not proper is posting online comments supporting a massacre of innocent civilians,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also added \u201cboxes and boxes\u201d of ammunition and weapons stowed around the house was of \u201cconsiderable concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Glynn was refused bail and is due to reappear in court in February.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the arrest, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said there was no place in Australia for antisemitism, hate or violent ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been briefed on the recent arrest in WA by the AFP Commissioner and the acting WA Premier,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the work of the WA Police in quickly identifying this individual and acting immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal agencies through the Joint Countert Terrorism Team have offered full support to WAPOL [WA Police].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WA Police Minister Reece Whitby said any behaviour that is dangerous, threatening or hateful should be reported to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have almost three million sets of eyes out there, everyone can be watching, not just police, but everyone, the entire West Australian community can be watching for this kind of post that talks about threats to our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loading Glynn argued he collected flags, and owned more than 50. In relation to his social media posts,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-368349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}