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Police use capsicum spray on neo-Nazis after clash at Melbourne asylum seeker rally (www.abc.net.au)

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Police said no arrests were made and nobody was injured.

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Headline unfortunately dissolves upon inspection:

Mr Mylvaganam said one of the speakers at the asylum seeker rally was capsicum sprayed by police.

"I spoke with our marshalling team, and the information I received is that the police pepper-sprayed our group well before they took any action against the neo-Nazis."

"[The neo-Nazis] were pepper sprayed, but they were allowed to continue with their march after that," he said.

Police pepper spray asylum seekers, and then neo-nazis might more accurately describe the events.