Brown said the actions of NSW Police were big, given the nature of the alleged offence \u2013 \u201ca bloke wearing a t-shirt\u201d. Brown was walking along the promenade at North Bondi when confronted by two police officers. Two more arrived. Then more, including commanders and members of special operations group Taskforce Odin.<\/p>\n
There may have been 18 police all up, Brown told MWM on a rough count, as well as two paddy wagons and two ambulances. <\/p>\n
After the initial confrontation, members of Premier Chris Minns\u2019 specially designated riot and protest squad, Odin arrived minutes later. That\u2019s the NSW Police Force\u2019s \u201cOperational Support Group<\/a>\u201d (OSG) for the Central Metropolitan Region \u2013 known as Odin (or ODN), serving as a specialised unit for high-visibility policing, protests, riot control, and raids.<\/p>\n In Norse mythology, Odin is the god of war and head of the pantheon in Valhalla \u2013 destined to lead the gods in the final battle of Ragnar\u00f6k where he will be killed by the wolf Fenrir.<\/p>\n In making the point that the police response to his t-shirt was heavy-handed, Brown told police officers that NSW had broken his mother\u2019s arm in their attacks on protestors at Sydney\u2019s Town Hall two months ago. Dozens of protestors were arrested, attacked and injured protesting Israel\u2019s genocide and the visit of President Isaac Herzog.<\/p>\n This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n At Bondi today, Andrew Brown refused for some time to remove his t-shirt, or turn it inside out. However, after 20 minutes of arguing his right of freedom of political communication \u2013 that Israel was a state and Zionism a political ideology open to public criticism \u2013 he took it off as he had to go to the footy to see Parra versus Wests.<\/p>\n Brown was sitting on a wall on Bondi Beach last November wearing his Fuck Israel Fuck Zionism t-shirt when two police officers approached. Although he made no effort to flee, he was arrested, handcuffed and led around Bondi before being plonked in a paddy wagon and taken to Waverley Police Station. Thence the legal proceedings for a year.<\/p>\n
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