Black Lives Matter protests 'completely unacceptable', Scott Morrison says in call for demonstrators to be chargedPrime Minister Scott Morrison has demanded an end to further Black Lives Matter protests, saying some protests have been hijacked by left-wing movements and demonstrators at future events should be charged.
Mr Morrison has previously urged Australians not to attend the mass protests against Indigenous incarceration rates and deaths in custody, citing the risk of COVID-19.
Today he ramped up his rhetoric, saying developments overseas, where protesters have torn down statues of historical figures deemed responsible for atrocities such as slavery and genocide, showed the Black Lives Matter movement had been "taken over by much more politically driven left-wing agendas".
"We've got to be honest about our history, we've also got to respect our history as well," he said.
"This is not a licence for people to go nuts on this stuff."
He accused protesters of setting back efforts to lift coronavirus restrictions.
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- "Certainly any further action on this front would be absolutely unacceptable," he said.
"The double standards that [protesters] allowed themselves to perpetrate by turning up has offended, rightly I think, Australians right across the country.
"The way that it was done and the suggestion that they might do it again risks public support for even the issue they raise."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-11/black-lives-matter-protests-morrison-calls-for-charges/12342762