[jaguar]

Hubris Boy, sorry but your wrong on a few counts.

Yes there are/were a smallish number of hardcore anarchists running amock, this guy was one of them. While carrying a fire extinguisher towards an ARMOURED LAND CRUSIER he was shot twice the head by a cop INSIDE the cruiser. The vehicle then apparently backed over him, possibly repeatedly. - in other words the cop was in basically 0 direct danger, he has since been charged with murder, and rightly so.

There is another key point here, he shot him clean in the HEAD, cops are taught how to shoot to disarm but not kill, this guy wanted to kill, if he wanted to stop he throwing it surely he could have shot him in the chest/shoulder which would have made him drop it but is far less likely to kill him that between the eyes.

I don't agree with the methods of anarchists, they are counterproductive, but I like huge group of people protesting such meetings in a peaceful manor. Also please, remember cops don't play fair, I was at the S11 rally in Melbourne last year. In some of the batten charges they just randomly hit people around the head with 3 foot long steel poles, often these people were just standing on the sidelines, some of the cops just went rabid and hit anything that wasn’t wearing blue, and the court cases which have recently been won here prove it.

2 sides to ever story - I'm getting my information from the Age newspaper here, which is the biggest and leans slightly conservative so....

Also note that amongst the 124 non police injured (64 cops injured) were 10 journos who were apparently beaten despite wearing ID gear..

When they can raise nearly 100,000 people onto the streets, its sure sign to me that something is amiss, and that people are realizing how such meetings undermine our fragile democracy.

I fear the future.