On Friday evening, around 300 people turned up to Taylor Square to protest against police violence against the LGBTQIA+ community. After protesters occupied the intersection on Oxford Street, police and the riot squad moved in to forcibly remove them. The rally then marched to Surry Hills police station, where speeches were made calling for the police to be defunded.
The rally came in the wake of the murders of Luke Davies and Jess Baird, allegedly by a serving police officer, and after a report was handed down into gay hate crimes from the 1970s to 2010, which found that NSW police failed in their due diligence to investigate a series of these deaths.
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