Posted on 08/04/2021 5:07:09 PM PDT by simpson96
A bizarre video has captured the moment an anti-lockdown protester who pretended to be doing yoga in a park with a group of others was dragged away by cops.
In the wild footage, a maskless man could be seen kneeling on the grass of New Farm park in Brisbane's CBD on Monday as police held his arms behind his back.
'Leave my jacket alone,' he told the officers before they carted him away.
People in locked-down south-east Queensland are only allowed to exercise outdoors with one other person amid some of the toughest restrictions the state has ever seen to curb the growing number of Covid infections in the region.
While the video is captioned 'man arrested in a park in Brisbane for doing yoga', a spokesman for Queensland Police told Daily Mail Australia the group used yoga as a strategy to avoid arrest at the demonstration.
'That was a strategy for the protesters - they pretended they were doing exercise and police were moving them on,' the spokesman said.
Even though the man wasn't wearing a face mask like he should have been, the spokesman said cops would have simply given him a fine if he wasn't protesting.
After her friend was dragged off, a woman tried to argue with a nearby officer about whether he was allowed to enforce Covid-19 restrictions.
He assured her that he was, before asking if the group were all from the same household.
'No,' she replied.
'Then you can't be sitting together in the park doing yoga - you can only be out with one other person who is not from your household,' the officer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Find these cops and…
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this is what happens when they disarm the citizenry...
Papers…er…masks, please.
No Namaste?
Communism on full display.
Systemic stupidity by the government
When China conquers Australia, it won’t be much of a change for them.
Protesting is illegal in Australia?
Cops don’t need to wear masks?
Utterly insane.
When China conquers Australia, it won’t be much of a challenge for them.
2 totally different observations. Both absolutely true.
Caps are not our friends. They do what the government tells them to do. They are not ‘our’ servants. They are the enforcers.
If I were an Australian, I would not fight the Chinese PLA if they invaded. Are you better off under Australian tyrants than Chinese ones? Like in the final years of the Western Roman Empire, the common people didn’t care if they were ruled by Romans or Germans.
Liberal Government dreams come true ,worst than the worst communist dictatorships
My wife wanted to visit Australia in retirement. They are off my list.
…shoot them.
Yoga is a form of protest. And a form of art. And a religious practice.
The same is true of fake yoga. All of the above.
Now fake orgasms: i am going to let someone else comment there. (Blushing .🤭😳
So, the issue was that he wasn’t pretending to do yoga well enough?
“My wife wanted to visit Australia in retirement. They are off my list.”
Prague is lovely in the Springtime.
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