Videos urged counter-protesters to attack LGBTQ+ activists outside Sydney church

Messages sent prior to violent confrontation encouraged group to ‘grab them and drag them by their fucking hair’

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Videos circulating on WhatsApp in the days before LGBTQ+ activists say they were set upon by a mob outside a church in Sydney urged people to disrupt the protest and “drag” the LGBTQ+ activists away “by their fucking hair” and to “defend our family values”.

Two men were arrested after a violent altercation between a group of men and LGBTQ+ protesters outside a Catholic church in the south-west Sydney suburb of Belfield, where One Nation’s Mark Latham was giving a speech about “parental rights” and “religious freedom”.

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