SYDNEY, Australia, July 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Australians have reported their fellow citizens to authorities more than 5,500 times after Saturday’s anti-lockdown and medical freedom protest in Sydney.
The reports were made to Crime Stoppers, a website where individuals can file anonymous crime reports with authorities. At least 63 protestors are charged with assaulting officers and police horses, and damaging public property, according to CNN.
More than 500 people have been fined for breaking the health orders in place, which forbid large gatherings and mandate masks.
New South Wales police minister, David Elliott, announced the formation of a strike force “which will see 22 detectives work from now until whenever it concludes, identifying as many people as possible who attended [the] incident and have them charged.”
Elliott praised those who reported on their fellow citizens and urged more witnesses to come forward. “That’s a great start … My appeal to everybody who has information: please don’t give up.”
Elliott claimed that protestors have a “moral obligation” to self-isolate and be tested for COVID, in case they contracted the disease at the protest.
He appealed to protestors’ sense of virtue and urged repentance. “So, you did the wrong thing yesterday, do the
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