Prosecutors have dropped charges against Hannah Thomas, who suffered a serious eye injury when officers broke up an anti-Israel protest in June, with the former Greens candidate now set to launch civil action against the NSW Police.
Almost three months after Thomas was charged along with four other protesters at an anti-Israel rally, lawyers representing the Director of Public Prosecutions asked for the charges against her to be
Hannah Thomas, a former Greens candidate, leaves Bankstown Local Court on Tuesday.Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Outside court, her lawyer Peter O’Brien confirmed she would launch a civil针对新南威尔士州警察的案件。他还透露，他期望涉及托马斯被捕的军官被起诉。 She has undergone multiple surgeries since, and was warned by doctors that she may never regain vision in her right eye.
LoadingShe was one of five protesters charged after the demonstration, which prompted serious criticism of NSW Police because of doubts over which laws officers relied on to break up the demonstration.
Thomas, still in her hospital bed, was charged with resisting arrest and refusing an order to disperse following the protest.
This masthead subsequently revealed she had been charged using a rarely invoked emergency anti-riot power introduced after the 2005 Cronulla riots to deal with “large-scale public disorder” which required authorisation from senior police to be used.
Advertisement警方后来表示，这项指控将被撤回，并以拒绝遵守移动命令的标准指控取代。
，但在星期二，对她的所有指控都被撤销。托马斯在法庭外说，她感到放心，这些指控已被撤回，但表示“远远不正义”。
6月被捕的五人中有四名仍在面临指控，托马斯说，警察并没有“考虑到他们的行为”。紧随其后的是。
这一决定将促使托马斯在联邦大选的格雷德勒内西部席位上对阵绿党的决定促使托马斯开始对阵新南威尔士州P的民事行动奥利斯（Olice）因逮捕而进行。
o’brien，她的律师在法庭外说，他计划在周二晚些时候在新南威尔士州最高法院正式启动民事诉讼。
“这是非常非常严重的伤害，将寻求赔偿。他说：“不应该被搁置。他对当时的官员过度使用武力的潜力。
的“初步审查”。
当时，我说“在我面前的这个阶段没有任何信息，这表明我的任何一个官员都在这件事上说，这是我的任何事件，而她又是在此案件中均表示。抗议抗议活动的律师和警察消息人士说，这表明她被殴打了。
在7月，新南威尔士州警方发表了一份声明，称这是确认转诊的声明，称这是警察的“过度武力的问题”。
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