A NSW Police officer has been captured on his own bodycam footage telling colleagues he punched a man in the head \u201cwhile he was down\u201d.<\/p>\n
Circulated online, the footage shows a group of NSW Police officers walking down George St in Sydney\u2019s CBD during the anti-Herzog protests on February 9 and discussing a recent confrontation.<\/p>\n
The protests, sparked by the arrival of Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Sydney, are now the subject of a Law Enforcement Conduct Commission inquiry following allegations of police brutality.<\/p>\n
As the officers walk past the Haymarket Hotel, the male officer wearing the body camera tells his colleagues \u201cI f**king pumped that c*nt\u201d.<\/p>\n
A female officer turns to him and says \u201coh, it was you? So funny\u201d before the officer replies \u201cyeah, yeah, and then I punched him in the head when he was down\u201d.<\/p>\n
The female officer laughs and says \u201coh I know, I saw that\u201d.<\/p>\n
The snippet of footage has been liked more than 6000 times on Instagram and reposted by more than 1,600 people.<\/p>\n
Under the tagline Operation Makalu, the LECC investigation into police misconduct on February 9 has fielded more than 800 complaints and is reviewing more than 1000 hours of security camera footage.<\/p>\n
Greens member of the Legislative Council Sue Higginson said the footage was \u201cappalling,\u201d and she had already reached out to Ms Catley to request the immediate dismissal of the officer involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was there that night. I interacted with police, I witnessed things I wish I had never had to witness. Unfortunately, the behaviour on display in that video did not happen in isolation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, that really was the tenor of a number of police officers, and in my view, it represents the level of impunity and hatred that many officers brought to that operation that night at Town Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people would attend an event thinking that if a police officer was there, they were genuinely there to maintain the peace and keep the people safe. The truth of what happened that night is that wasn\u2019t the experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Higginson blamed the Minns government\u2019s repeated targeting of pro-Palestine protests for the officers\u2019 attitudes.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the Minns Labor government to make several attempts to stop these protests, for them to introduce anti-protest law after anti-protest law, which the courts have deemed unconstitutional, was an escalation of division between the government, police and a movement for peace,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that police officers\u2019 actions, along with the actions of several other officers that night, was part of a product inextricably linked to the Minns Labor government\u2019s actions and the continued demonising of protesters across the streets of Sydney.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Herzog has been accused of inciting genocide by both Amnesty International and an independent UN Commission of Inquiry for claiming there were \u201cno uninvolved civilians\u201d in Gaza after the October 7 Hamas terror attacks.<\/p>\n
His arrival in Australia in February generated mass protests across the country, with Premier Chris Minns granting NSW Police special powers in an effort to deter protesters from marching through the Sydney CBD.<\/p>\n
Despite reports of police brutality and footage of officers dragging Muslim worshippers away from their afternoon prayers and punching protesters, Mr Minns said officers had been put in \u201can impossible situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
Prior to the protests, Ms Catley said anybody in attendance would be \u201cdeliberately antagonising the NSW Police\u201d.<\/p>\n
A NSW government spokesman said the ongoing LECC investigation was \u201centirely appropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe LECC is examining the events of that evening, as is entirely appropriate. It is independent of government and must be allowed to do its work,\u201d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have confidence in that process and will let it run its course.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A NSW Police officer has been captured on his own bodycam footage telling colleagues he punched a 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