Those Vids Of Police Protecting Nazis TERFs In Victoria Are Why Cops Don’t Belong At Pride

A group of Nazis and TERFs protested against trans people outside of Victoria’s Parliament House on Saturday. It was a rancid display of transphobic, homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic ideologies in broad daylight, and there is more than enough footage to confirm that it was aggressively protected by Victorian Police. This serves as a reminder as to why LGBTQIA+ people don’t want cops at pride, not now and not ever. For most queer people, it was no surprise to see Victorian Police captured on film forming barricades around Nazis and TERFs while trans rights activists were reportedly hit, pepper sprayed and arrested. The police force is an institution that has historically targeted and vilified LGBTQIA+ people, especially POC members of the community. It’s an institution that, for so many communities, only stands to represent violence, oppression and silencing. It does not exist to serve marginalised people. It does not exist to serve people at all

VicPol have now facilitated a spot on the steps of Victorian parliament for the neo nazi group. They are doing nazi salutes on the steps of parliament surrounded by police who led them up there and are now standing linked to protect them

— Amy Sargeant (@amy_sargeant_) March 18, 2023

let’s be real, is it because they don’t deserve the attention or because photos would show police pepper spraying trans people + protecting Nazis pic.twitter.com/IKYeW9zfiq

— Joshua Badge (@joshuabadge) March 19, 2023

Nazis being protected so fiercely by police at an anti trans protest should make everyone who criticised @SenatorThorpe's protest at Mardi Gras 2023 hang their head in absolute shame

— irreconcilable (@MelindaMann01) March 18, 2023

literal

I was assaulted by VICPol numerous times today while breaking no laws, repeatedly asking what legal right they had to treat me this way, & receiving no answer

Meanwhile NAZIs goose-stepped & sieg heiled behind them

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

— Strewth (@StrewthQueen) March 18, 2023

I’m disturbed by reports of police brutality towards anti-facist protestors and leniency towards neo-nazis. This is unacceptable.

Facism, transphobia and racism are all part of the same arc of hate and must be destroyed.

— Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) March 19, 2023

Which isn't to say hatred against trans people shouldn't be enough to outrage all of us, but if you are part of a marginalised group and you're ignoring this rise in transphobia, complicit in it, or (god forbid) supporting it, you're committing a massive self own.

— Kara Schlegl (@karaschlegl) March 18, 2023

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