It was a far cry from the wild scenes of last weekend.After last weekend's anti-lockdown protests saw thousands of people descend on the CBD, fears of a repeat fizzled this afternoon.Horses graze near Hyde Park with no sign of protesters.An exclusion zone has been set up around the CBD until 3.00pm, with roadblocks preventing access from main roads.
Dozens of officers from the riot squad and mounted police unit were at Hyde Park and Town Hall where last weekend's demonstration escalated.While people were allowed to walk through the iconic lawns, large groups were stopped and asked where they are going as a precaution. Anti-lockdown groups on Telegram, which the ABC has chosen not to name, said none of its known organisers had any plans for a Saturday protest.
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kimbakit Disgusting that police brutality and bringing in the military to squash the freedoms of people is applauded. Lockdowns harm - the virus is spread at close quarters. Great outdoors poses no risk. Australia is ludicrous- it saw the damage overseas and did the same thing🤦🏾🤦🏾♂️
Abc’s interviews always come from people who don’t want to reveal their identity, which makes it easy for them to create biased coverage.
The police concocted a story that there would be protestors, so that Agitprop could report on it with the ‘subtle’ bias above. And the average midwit leftist on this dumpster fire website will lap it up like the animals they are
NSW is a bad joke ! Its a bloody mess due to their premier's half hearted slow lockdowns,.... and they don't need idiots making it worse right now demonstrating
Took them one week to figure out protesting without a mask means police can identify them. Smart cookies. I think many of them turned up in Albury last night. Saw 200 plus people lined up no masks..crammed together waiting to get into a Bar. Crazy.
Good planning.
Have they gone to a Hill Song retreat?
JulianBurnside There never was a protest organised. The police tried to drum up a disinfo campaign that there was a protest going to happen, and then look like the conquerors when no-one turned up for a protest that only existed in the minds of police. I'm really surprised you ever shared this.
They didn't stop shit 🤣🤣🤣🤣 there wasn't meant to be protests this weekend. The big organisers specifically stated all over social media there aren't any planned and that someone had edited the flyer for the last protests with this week's dates but it wasn't legit. 🤣🤣🤣
There was no protest planned at all. People are getting sick of your police show.
Huge deterrence Only 8 arrests
Jokes on the coppers. No protest was even planned.
Maybe theyre meeting elsewhere
Waste of our taxpayer money !
Way to go Sydney! Stay home. Stay safe.
I’m assuming the word fizzer is a vaccine pun
Shit there pants
So the freedom fighters decided to hit the Meth pipe instead ? Good call.
And what an inconvenience for o us innocent motorists stuck in traffic door an hour and a half ... all for nothing
TerryTa23657140 A week late.
Police state NSW 2021 Australia just lost ethical and moral justification for criticising other countries, well done Gladys
1300 police officers from all units out in force to ensure people stay home and safe. More like 1300 police officers keeping people in a prison so they themselves and the government in power stays safe.
. It looks like there was no protest at all. Probably because last week's protest was so big and so successful. But nice try on the headline...
So let me get this straight. The police state there is protests. Police turn up. No protesters turn up. Media praise police on a good job. That’s an example of media born propaganda.
Must be besties ....that’s not 1.5m social distance
Thank goodness!
Go the Blues...protestor not so want their freedom now when the Blues on the road😂😂😂maybe they already caught covid after last weekend's ordeal..bloody tools.
Fortress Australia.
Lets waste their resources. Fabricate antilockdown protests. Organise them but dont rock up. Follow it up with a snap pop up protest and get them by surprise.
Not surprising. NSW is waking up to how much trouble they are in. I like to think they also care about the national impacts.
seems like lots of Police entered the CBD when everyone is being asked to stay home
Next weekend
I love all this chest beating from the Police and Media. There was no protest planned for today. Does anyone believe that this brave new strategy could be responsible for reducing protesters from 20,000 to 0? C'mon now.
😂😂😂😂 police announced it some imaginary protest and they celebrating... whole country locked up and abc has nothing better to write about
Stay alert tomorrow just in case
They’re all at home with a mild cough
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Good job and thanks for the service nswpolice
The organisers has a lot of friends.
So let me get this straight. They create a fake protest event in the hopes they arrest someone. No one turns up as no one buys the BS. The cops pat themselves on the back that they stopped the protest from happening for MSM, when it never was planned to occur? Yep got it.
Australia has become hysterical over the supposed deadly virus, using force to imprison people in their homes, it appears history is repeating itself, once a nation of prisoners, it is returning to its past.
Never knew it was on.
Word on the street is the peaceful protestors being stripped of their civil liberties out smarted the unelected 🤭
do not be selfish at this time.
Attention to all state premiere’s for future reference , 10k is apparently the ‘fuck around and find out’ number
No they r all sitting in bars or private homes spreading the disease
How come the same 0 tolerance attitude and resources are not spent on ensuring that return travelers potentially carrying new strains? 1000s of police to stop protesting for lockdowns that wouldnt be taking place if the quaritine measures were handled competently?
Of the total number of people currently infected in Sydney, how many are in hospital? I herd there’d been just under 9000 total infections since January 2020 .
I’d call that a success
Good! About time they realised the risk they're causing not only to themselves, but their family and friends and general public
just wait until they start burning cars tonight....
This shows protesters are good citizens after all and Australian people are with social responsibility and better than lots of others countries we saw.
A PROTEST WAS NEVER PLANNED FOR THIS WEEKEND. You are being played.
You. Got. Trolled!!
The Sheffield Shield people understand these crowd proportions.
That's because the protest was last week.
Oh where's all that bravado gone? I thought they were tough guys? Wanted to act like anarchists (even though they don't know what anarchy actually is).
what's the bet the silly little fuckers will turn up tomorrow ..?
What’s the name of the German group instigating and organising these protests?
A fizzer, or a Pfizer? 🤣
Looks like an unauthorised gathering of people in gang colours sydneyprotests
There was nothing planned
Fabulous! 🙏🏼🙌🙏🏼 to see Hopefully, those people have come to their senses & realised the severity of the Virus, & it's latest, even more deadly strain! As the huge impact it has on the people who sadly contract it Also, the consequences from their bad & selfish behaviour
At ladt, some common sense 👍👍
There will be a 100 reasons touted about the fizzer. Let's just hope last weekend's Einsteins have found some sense and the authorities some well deserved recognition.
Gotta love all the sycophants now claiming that it was never organised lol. Then youve got people that think their message got through already. It did, it galvanised 99% of the city against their selfish cause which had nothing to do with the rest of us, was all about individuals
Great now all you have to do is have a thousand coppers out in force every single weekend until the lockdown ends.
AustralianStory 😂🤣
Whether people agree with lockdowns and the vaccine or not is irrelevant - the law is the law and going to protest is not a permitted reason to leave the home. Glad nobody showed up.
It looks like the cops enjoyed their own little superspreader event
This was a media organised event to make arrests and look tough. Everyone who isn’t an idiot knew that. You won’t see next protest advertised on the ABC I assure you.
JulianBurnside Most of the big names from last weekend have been arrested, warned etc. It was just a minority of loudmouth delinquents. The rest of us just want to get on with doing the right thing. SydneyProtest
Non event thank goodness.
Well done!! Let’s keep trouble makers locked up.
it turned into a police super spreader event.
Good - stay home 👏👏👏
Fixed.
kimbakit
Hahahaha sucked in
Maybe it was faked because the real one is kept off social media. 🤷🏻♀️
Thanks for sending all the cops that way for the day 👍🏼
Lol that's because the police organised it, fake news guys cmon
Seeing that no one turned up, just maybe Sydney’s case numbers trend will be slowing down. One would think that some people developed some common sense not to show up, (maybe I’m giving them too much credit. It’s more like their bank accounts won’t let them)
Good news!
There was never a planned protest. It was nothing but a intimidation threat. People who will protest in the near future, aren’t intimidated by anything.
You know the best biological weapons are the ones that Gladys is not expecting.
😂😂😂
Protesters are playing stupid games, they are enjoying the confusion that they are causing, they are not being good little people & being compliant. They will be back soon....no doubt.
margokingston1 The a-holes from last week must’ve realised how much they’d p-ssed off all their family and friends
That was the whole point.
Thank you good citizens!
How come 1,000 police can be in the city protesting to not have protests, but civilians cannot do the same and voice their opinions of how they feel the gov is treating them. Those allowed to flout the rules and be outdoors are those powered by the tyrannical NSW government.
Lmao!! Don’t tell me they’re starting to see sense?!?
No surprises here
Let’s not brag about zombies getting it right too early😎
Whatever 1000 police costs the taxpayer on a Saturday, money well spent. nswpolice nswpol
Because.... its tommorow
No 'freedumb' protests this week, yay!
That's a great outcome well done nswpolice
Ha ha bluffed the govt Well done
Should be untitled to get their money back 😂
Excellent
But.. wait a minute.. the police was there.. so why say no one.. the police turned up.. they were stood up.. hahahahha
What a relief - thanks protestors
Tomorrow is the day I’m hearing , any truths to that
ha ha ha...police resources spent for nothing!
Obviously don't truly believe in their cause ,if a little police presence can prevent them .😂
😂😂…. So; what the politicians don’t tell you clearly is: that, there will be a two tier social strata. Not based on wealth, but based on those with- the smarts. Those vaccinated WILL have full social interaction… eg: Cinema, flights, shops, school etc That’s the sun of it!!
👏
AnnetteBeacher so.. how much did this extra police presence cost?
Wow. You are fake news. That’s because there was never a protest planned. The police & media created a non-existent protest to turn people against each other, scare people, silence future dissent. It’s psychological warfare. It’s so obvious. There is no protest. Divide & conquer.
Get vaccinated. Remember 1: you arent going to be tracked. Well, at least no better than Google maps. 2: Govt doesnt want TAXPAYERS dead
Sucked in wankers
Sick? Yellow flag (contagion), historically displayed on ships to indicate the presence of disease or quarantine (obsolete); also used in some cities to mark a recent death in a neighborhood, regardless of cause.
I take that as a win!
To be fair, professionalism and toleration of Aus police are already much better than either of the world top two states.
Just wondering if they are out in the suburbs doing their own individual protests’ I was at Coles Sutherland around 1.45 today Young couple He had no mask She had mask slung under her chin. Both smirking, laughing Taunting He was coughing Fabulous!
Excellent
Brad would be disappointed ☹️
Was never going to be one, don't claim you prevented it😂 the message was sent last week.
It was a diversion.
What a stupid headline
A fizzer or making the journalists create more awareness that covid lockdowns are not the right way to do things
Thank Christ for THAT!!
Probably just realised this is serious. StayHome
Victory for glorious better judgement.
210 cases... over 200 again...the average has now gone up 30% in 1 week. It's an uptrend ...
Good. No let's praise them rather than calling it a fizzer.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Protesters and NSW government must understand , it's either a harsh but short lockdown or a full blown pandemic. There is nothing in between.
Tax collectors...hahahah!
Fooled you!
We have plans, just had to reorganise.
We attack China for being authoritarian. How could we possibly be more authoritarian than NSW at the moment? The people wanted proper quarantine, the government wanted to protect the billionaire hotel owners.
Probably not enough woman PC's or horses to assault. Right wing people need to have the odds strongly in their favour in the event they have to display courage/ backbone
They got too scared to turn up. All talk these protesters.
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