Dymocks hires security after jump in assaults on staff over COVID rules

A popular bookshop in Melbourne’s CBD has been forced to hire security guards to guard its main entrance after employees were attacked by customers refusing to follow Victoria’s COVID-19 rules, with one worker being pushed down an escalator.

The footage shows the assailant, dressed in a colourful hoodie, walking past the worker’s motionless body before going back up the escalator and running away.About a hundred customers were in the store at the time, some of who rushed down the escalator to help. Mr and Mrs Traverso, who employ about 40 staff, said workers had previously been subjected to verbal abuse but never physically assaulted.

Mrs Traverso said the protests at Parliament House had legitimated the violent behaviour of some Victorians who opposed the Andrews government’s handling of the pandemic.

Rrroger that

Did they come in to burn the books ?

That’s crazy 😝

Take away peoples freedoms? Then you reap what you sow…

I suppose we should thank PM Scomo -aka The Scamo- for endorsing this kind of fascist behaviour. Or did he only endorse it in Victoria?

We’re 95% vaxed it’s time to remove all restrictions it’s only causing trouble in our community.

disgusting behavior.

RDA, this is on you. Newscorpse media, this is on you. VicLibs, this is on you. Absolutely disgraceful that you have all enabled this violence.

In Melbourne, we have a newspaper called ‘The Herald Sun’ which has spent months whipping up a violent anti-vaxxer mob which now roams the city committing random acts of violence against innocent workers just doing their job.

I really don’t get it, we are all in this situation together and the kinder we are to everybody the easy it is for all of us. If you think you are above the rules, you are a selfish and entitled idiot

JJKALE2 Foul criminals

These violent attacks are carried out by people your journalists support and encourage.

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