Two Arrested After a Thousand Protest Lockdowns in Melbourne

Two Arrested After a Thousand Protest Lockdowns in Melbourne
Police arrest a protester during an anti-lockdown rally in Melbourne on Oct. 23, 2020, amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. William West / AFP via Getty Images
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Two people have been arrested in the wake of Friday’s mass protest in Melbourne’s CBD, with one woman charged for allegedly kicking a police horse and a man for allegedly damaging a police response vehicle.

This comes after 16 people were arrested on Friday, following clashes with police, when an estimated thousand people marched to Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance to rally against the government’s strict health directions designed to combat the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus.