{"id":949727,"date":"2026-11-02T09:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949727\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:56:16","slug":"four-police-officers-hurt-in-brawl-between-celebrating-rugby-league-world-cup-fans-after-samoa-vs-tonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949727\/","title":{"rendered":"Four police officers hurt in brawl between celebrating Rugby League World Cup fans after Samoa vs Tonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four police officers were hurt after a series of fights broke out between rugby league fans in western Sydney following Tonga\u2019s thrilling victory over Samoa in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/rugby\" class=\"sc-iQQMgC dlumek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup <\/a>on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Popondetta Road, Emerton in Blacktown at 10pm as a large crowd gathered to celebrate the result.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793613376_979_65d86587c8b2f7ff9ec6ff1e95191346ab828ddf.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Tonga defeated Samoa 20-18. \u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Tonga <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/rugby-league-world-cup-news-tonga-v-samoa-result-chanel-harris-tavita-injury-20261101-p61af4.html\" class=\"sc-iQQMgC dlumek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Samoa 20-18<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There were so many fans in the streets that officers closed the road until 12.30am.<\/p>\n<p>But they say crowds re-gathered at the same road at 2am, when a number of fights broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Four police officers suffered minor injuries and used OC spray as they attempted to stop the brawling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There were so many Tonga fans in the streets that officers closed the road until 12.30am.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ff20434a4058de5863a50eb6dfbe30d79bf16293151b02acd86f26bbc143e797.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">There were so many Tonga fans in the streets that officers closed the road until 12.30am.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n<p>Two 19-year-old men were arrested and taken to Mount Druitt Police Station, where one of the men was charged with affray, and hindering or resisting a police officer in the execution of duty.<\/p>\n<p>The other man was charged with assaulting a police officer in the execution of duty causing actual bodily harm, and hindering or resisting a police officer in the execution of duty.<\/p>\n<p>They were refused bail to appear before Mount Druitt Local Court today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four police officers were hurt after a series of fights broke out between rugby league fans in western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-949727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949727","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=949727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}