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Emily Woods

Call to end police OC spray use after landmark finding

A judge has declared Victoria Police's use of OC spray during a 2019 mining protest was unlawful. (David Crosling/AAP PHOTOS)

A landmark finding that police committed battery and were "inhumane" in using capsicum spray against protesters should end its use, activists say.

The state of Victoria was on Friday ordered to pay $54,000 in damages to activist Jordan Brown, more than six years after he was hit with oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray at a mining protest.

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