{"id":8045,"date":"2020-09-06T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8045"},"modified":"2020-09-06T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T15:45:10","slug":"further-six-charged-following-protests-across-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/06\/further-six-charged-following-protests-across-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"Further six charged following protests across NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A further six people have been charged following yesterday\u2019s unauthorised protest activity in Sydney and Byron Bay.<br \/>\nHigh-visibility policing operations were launched in response to protests yesterday (Saturday 5 September 2020), to ensure the safety of participants, as well as the community and local businesses.<br \/>\nAt Sydney Olympic Park, general duties from Auburn Police Area Command, assisted by specialist resources, were deployed the ensure peaceful and lawful demonstrations.<br \/>\nTwo men \u2013 aged 45 and 34 \u2013 were arrested at a park at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush.<br \/>\nThe older man was charged with assault officer in execution of duty assault officer in execution of duty, resist officer in execution of duty and not comply with noticed direction.<br \/>\nThe younger man was charged with fail to comply with direction and not comply with noticed direction.<br \/>\nThey were both granted conditional bail to appear at Burwood Local Court on Thursday 24 September 2020.<br \/>\nIn Byron Bay, four men have been charged following yesterday\u2019s protests at parks on Jonsons Street and Bay Street.<br \/>\nA 34-year-old man was charged with assault officer in execution of duty and resist officer in execution of duty.<br \/>\nHe was granted conditional bail will appear at Byron Bay Local Court on Monday 21 September 2020<br \/>\nA 36-year-old man was charged with resist or hinder police officer in the execution of duty, wilfully obstruct officer in execution of duty and resist officer in execution of duty.<br \/>\nA 21-year-old man was charged with wilfully obstruct officer in execution of duty and resist officer in execution of duty.<br \/>\nA 42-year-old man was charged with resist officer in execution of duty.<br \/>\nThey were granted conditional bail will appear at Byron Bay Local Court on Monday 28 September 2020<br \/>\nIn total, police charged nine people and issued 81 Penalty Infringement Notices of $1000 were issued for alleged breaches of the current NSW Public Health Orders.<br \/>\nPolice continue to appeal to the community to report suspected breaches of any ministerial direction or behaviour which may impact on the health and safety of the community.<br \/>\n<strong><em>Anyone who has information regarding individuals or businesses in contravention of a COVID-19-related ministerial direction is urged to contact Crime Stoppers:<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report crime via NSW Police social media pages.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A further six people have been charged following yesterday\u2019s unauthorised protest activity in Sydney and Byron Bay. High-visibility policing operations were launched in response to protests yesterday (Saturday 5 September 2020), to ensure the safety of participants, as well as the community and local businesses. At Sydney Olympic Park, general duties from Auburn Police Area &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/06\/further-six-charged-following-protests-across-nsw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Further six charged following protests across NSW&#8221;<\/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-8045","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\/8045","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=8045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}