NSW police chief vows to block Black Lives Matter protest planned for Sydney

Mick Fuller says Victoria's protests put lives at risk but state health authorities have said no known episodes of transmission occurred'

NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller has vowed he will go to court to block a Black Lives Matter protest planned for Sydney next week, citing the event's potential to spread coronavirus.

Fuller said rally organisers had filed a formal application for the protest but police would go to the Supreme court to try and stop it from proceeding, after the event garnered more than 1,000 indications of attendance online and 3,000 expressions of interest by Monday evening.