Posted on 08/04/2021 9:17:44 AM PDT by karpov
Distressing video shows an Australian man reportedly suffering a heart attack while being arrested for not wearing a mask as he exercised outdoors – even though he told the cops he was exempt from the strict mandate due to medical reasons.
The man and his partner were exercising at Brisbane Botanical Gardens on Monday when he was caught without the face covering, according to Sky News Australia.
He told the officers that he suffers from heart problems and struggles to breathe so was exempt from the mandate.
But the cops didn’t believe the man had cardiac issues, according to the man’s son Joseph Merlino, who posted the disturbing footage.
The video shows his father telling the officers that the handcuffs were hurting him.
“I’m not confident that you’re going to comply with our directions,” an officer responds.
While being dragged away in cuffs, the man suddenly collapses, cries out in pain, and appears to suffer a seizure as his partner yells, “I told you!”
The heavily panting man also is seen reaching for medicine in his bag as he is held down on the ground.
In a lengthy post on Instagram, Merlino wrote that his dad “did not do anything illegal. He did not retaliate in a violent manner. He was conducting himself in a peaceful manner. Not looking for trouble.
“Why was he handcuffed? Why was he under arrest? What did he do wrong? This doesn’t make sense. The government is forcing control by any means necessary. Creating fear and bullying tactics to make people not be able to able to have a voice,” he wrote.
Merlino said the episode left him in tears because he “couldn’t do anything or be there for him and feeling as a son to protect his father.”
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Too bad Aussies are unarmed.
If there is anyplace j. The world that needs to be armed its there- everything g is out to kill them there. Apparently even the police now as they enforce a ‘law that violates inalienable rights
[[when he was caught without the face covering]]
Did you ever in your life beleive you would read those words?
Unreal!
Australia is progressing from ChiCom lite with Covid to full ChiCom.
Seeing what happens when you disarm yourself and your family!
Total number of people in Australia under the age of 50 who have died in the pandemic: Six. The majority of the deaths there have been people in their 80s and 90s.
“I’m not confident that you’re going to comply with our directions,” an officer responds.
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Jackboots are always very confident when they’re beating up the elderly and frail. F’ng sadists.
I always though Australia was on par with the USA as far as freedom and personal freedoms. Guess that stopped when they surrendered their firearms.
If the dems have their way, this will be coming to any town in America.
You have to wear a mask OUTSIDE in Austalia?
How stupid is that?
What am I saying? I live in Vegas and it’s not required to wear a mask outside now, but with our idiot Dem governor, who knows what will happen next?
I once thought Australia might be a cool place to live, but woke politics, its fears and the resulting tyranny that comes from it have apparently ruined a good thing and a good people.
The Great Reset ain’t so great after all.
It’s a world-wide, spirit killing, mental malware with a seductively synchronized voice saying: “Resistance is futile.”
You will be assimilated … or depopulated.
All hail GovCo.
The Aussies gave up their guns and now they’re discovering that you can’t fight your own government without them.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
927 deaths! Are you freaking kidding me. Canada, my country, comparable to the size of Australia has had 26,000 deaths. And the Aussies are freaking out of this!?
Can you guess the number for heart disease?
17,000.
There is no earthly reason to wear a mask in the open air outside.
‘Seeing what happens when you disarm yourself and your family!’
right; he should have just yanked out a gun...it’s not like those cops would’ve shot him on the spot when they see a weapon pointed at them or anything...
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