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There's questions to be answered about the gun situation but I do think it's heavy handed to un-invite the police as a group in the way that they have. After all they didn't instruct or condone it. In this situation someone killed someone that just happened to be employed by Police, it wasn't a Policeman acting as Police who killed. And the guy is obviously not all there. Sounds like he would have killed anyway through some other method eventually.
Would they uninvite Qantas as a corporate sponsor if one of their employees murdered someone? What about Optus, or Coles?
Personally I don't care for virtue signalling, which is what it looks like when Police march. But then again there's virtue signalling all around. Those big corporate sponsors would drop Pride faster than you could blink if it seriously hurt their financial bottom line.