BLM Rally Won’t Seek WA Crowd Exemption

Protesters chant and hold placards at Town Hall during a 'Black Lives Matter' protest march June 06, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. Events across Australia have been organised in solidarity with protests in the United States following the killing of an unarmed black man George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota and to rally against aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images

Organisers of the second Black Lives Matter protest in Perth are refusing to apply for an exemption to host more than 300 people under COVID-19 restrictions.

Co-organiser Tanesha Bennell said no exemption had been sought for the first rally, which drew about 2000 people.