Australia: Riot police attack sacked transport workers

More than 30 police officers, including riot squad personnel, the dog squad and undercover detectives, were mobilised after a group of workers entered the locked McArthur Express depot at Seven Hills to seek information and termination documents from the company. Asked by security guards to leave the premises, workers complied and then began a peaceful five-hour protest outside the gates.

As soon as a worker tried to stop a truck leaving the depot, however, he was tackled to the ground and held in a chokehold by an undercover cop, wearing casual clothes, who had been mingling in the crowd. When Jackie Moore instinctively went to his aid, without knowing the assailant was a police officer, she was grabbed and pushed backwards by riot police.