What do you mean it's outrageous, that this can be done with the police present - The public only get the police force they deserve! Successive Govt's and the public at large, have whinged and whined like a Valiant Diff, about how aggressive the police are, thus they need to have greater scrutiny of their actions - well there you go, if I still wore blue, I'd simply stand back and watch, unless there was a clear threat of serious injury or loss of life!

Joe,

I don't agree with aggression against Dastyari but, unlike you I will not apologise for the little rat, and I cannot feel any sympathy for him. Yes, I am Australian but, unlike you and Dastyari, I don't drink alcohol. You are being presumptuous.

o sung wu,

No. We get the politicians we deserve. There is no excuse for police officers not to do their duty no matter what gutless oiks are in power. You are virtually accepting that the Australian public can no longer expect to be protected and kept safe by police.

Ttbn,

You don't drink alcohol ?! What, you're a Muslim ?!

I think you got the drift of what I was saying; like him or not, Dastyari (or Forster) shouldn't be subjected to threats, abuse or violence. Neither of them. Nobody should. Left or Right thuggery, it's all gutless and contemptible.

Joe

PS. Wow, I'm arguing on different threads with Paul and Ttbn at the same time. I must be a centrist.

You got it mate!

Thugs are goondas.
thug

noun
1.
a violent person, especially a criminal.
"he was attacked by a gang of thugs"
mugger, gangster, terrorist, gunman, murderer, killer, hitman, assassin,
2.
historical
a member of an organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travellers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
Police will use bump-stock anti-thug firepower at political meetings to make the streets safe again.