Police spark riot

A Lady leaves her kid in a car yesterday in Sydney, with the windows down, for 10 minutes as she went quickly into a shop. Yesterday it was cold in Sydney BTW. Wrong yes. But what followed was much worse. Instead of being cautioned by the police or some such thing, the police escalated the situation.

A BABY left in a car while his mother ran into a south-west Sydney shop led to claims of "a riot", with one officer pulling a Taser and numerous shoppers surrounded by police cars and affected by capsicum spray. 

Scores of Campsie and Bankstown police were called to Punchbowl's The Boulevard where they arrested two 20-year-old men after police clashed with shoppers on Friday afternoon. 

The mother of the baby, who wants to remain anonymous, told Fairfax Media she has apologised to police for briefly leaving her sleeping one-year-old unsupervised in her car with windows wound down. 

The violence was sparked by her cousin and brother clashing with police over the "10-minute indiscretion", she said. 

"The first two officers were fine; it was another officer who was yelling at my brother and got into a big argument," she said. "The police officer pushed him to the ground and made an arrest." 
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Community advocate for south-west Sydney, Rebecca Kay, has taken statements from eight people who saw the "riot" that was witnessed by up to 100 people. 

Those who were sprayed will make an official complaint, she said. 

Ms Kay said about 10 squad cars arrived on the scene and further escalated the trouble. 

"One officer pulled out his Taser," she said. "The street was closed off, there were many people sprayed with capsicum spray, mums, kids, men and women, innocent bystanders. Police sprayed everyone," she said. Read more

Why am I not surprised? It's just typical of them. They take a relatively minor thing, go all ape shit over it, and turn it into some kind of war. There is something very wrong with the NSW police.