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The police have handcuffed a pregnant woman in front of her children and taken her away in her pajamas for allegedly inciting activists to demonstrate against the pandemic lockdown.
Zoe Buhler’s partner helped her broadcast the arrest live Wednesday at her home where she lives with two children, ages 3 and 4, in the Australian city of Ballarat, Victoria state.
The video has been viewed millions of times.
Since then, the 28-year-old has been accused of using social media platforms to incite others to break pandemic restrictions by attending weekend rallies.
“The police could have called me on the phone and said, ‘Look, you must cancel your event or you could be charged with a crime,’ and I would have,” he told reporters.
“It could have been as simple as that. You know, I’m not someone you know ever commits a crime or something like that.”
Victoria is Australia’s Covid-19 hot spot and its capital Melbourne has been under unprecedented lockdown restrictions in Australia since the beginning of August.
Victoria’s Assistant Police Commissioner Luke Cornelius described police handcuffing Buhler as “completely reasonable.”
“The optics of arresting someone who is pregnant is terrible,” Cornelius said.
Police also arrested three men and accused them of inciting others to break pandemic restrictions over planned protests in Melbourne on Saturday.
