A man is due in Parramatta Bail Court today charged after allegedly abusing members of the public, assaulting police and spitting.
\nOfficers from Kings Cross Police Area Command were called to Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, about 9.10pm (Friday 1 May 2020), responding to reports a man was running through traffic hitting cars, then abusing shoppers at a nearby supermarket.
\nPolice approached the man on Suttor Street and arrested him after a short struggle during which the man allegedly spat near police.
\nPolice will allege the 27-year-old man then spat on another man while at Kings Cross Police Station.
\nThe Potts Point man was taken to St Vincent\u2019s Hospital about 11.30pm where he allegedly spat on a police officer and a NSW Ambulance paramedic. He also allegedly kicked an officer in the chest twice.
\nHe remained under police guard in hospital until 5.45am (Saturday 2 May 2020), when he was released and taken to Kings Cross Police Station where he was charged with 10 offences:
\n\u2022 Not comply noticed direction re spitting\/coughing \u2013 COVID-19 (three counts)
\n\u2022 Behave in an offensive manner in\/near public place
\n\u2022 Affray
\n\u2022 Common assault (two counts)
\n\u2022 Assault police officer in execution of duty (two counts), and
\n\u2022 Resist or hinder police officer in the execution of duty.
\nHe has been refused bail to appear in Parramatta Bail Court today (Saturday 2 May 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man is due in Parramatta Bail Court today charged after allegedly abusing members of the public, assaulting police and spitting. Officers from Kings Cross Police Area Command were called to Crown Street, Woolloomooloo, about 9.10pm (Friday 1 May 2020), responding to reports a man was running through traffic hitting cars, then abusing shoppers at … Continue reading “Man in court after shoppers abused, police and ambulance officers spat on, assaulted”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}