Professor Simon Rice was violently arrested under COVID-related health orders while peacefully observing a student protest in Sydney in 2020.
A University of Sydney law professor has won a lawsuit against the state after NSW Police arrested him on the sidelines of a student protest, swept his legs out from under him and pushed him to the ground.
Rice had been peacefully observing the protest against tertiary education policy with some of his students, who were working on a project relating to protest law reform. During most of the action, he stood about five to 10 metres away from the protesters.Rice was walking through part of the crowd when he observed police officers standing around a young woman. One of the officers took a megaphone out of her hand and Rice asked them why they were doing that.
“The only way to make the NSW Police stop and think about how they overstepped the mark is to sue them. That is a slow, costly and risky path ... and not one that most people who encounter the NSW Police can undertake.
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