Article 6A23V Videos urged counter-protesters to attack LGBTQ+ activists outside Sydney church

Videos urged counter-protesters to attack LGBTQ+ activists outside Sydney church

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Mostafa Rachwani and Christopher Knaus
from World news | The Guardian on (#6A23V)

Messages sent prior to violent confrontation encouraged group to grab them and drag them by their fucking hair'

Videos circulating on WhatsApp in the days before LGBTQ+ activists say they were set upon by a mob outside a church in Sydney urged people to disrupt the protest and drag" the LGBTQ+ activists away by their fucking hair" and to defend our family values".

Two men were arrested after a violent altercation between a group of men and LGBTQ+ protesters outside a Catholic church in the south-west Sydney suburb of Belfield, where One Nation's Mark Latham was giving a speech about parental rights" and religious freedom".

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