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At least one New South Wales police officer wore a “thin blue line” badge – which has
been co-opted by far right and extremist groups – when working at a pro-Palestine
protest at Port Botany, according to Legal Observers NSW.
Guardian Australia has seen a photograph of one officer wearing the badge on
Sunday night and observers who attended the protest said “several” other officers
also wore the patch showing a black-and-white Australian flag with a blue line
running across it.
“Several officers were observed wearing thin blue line patches, an iconography
associated with fascist movements,” a spokesperson for Legal Observers NSW said
on Monday. “Many of these officers were the most aggressive with protestors.”