Comment on Sydney Harbour Bridge reopens after 90,000 march in pro-Palestinian rally
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoOh haha, cool I saw myself. Yeah I tried getting some photos when we went down Bourke St, but it was so massive that it actually looks small. The crowd disappeared over the hill heading west and went around the corner back up Swanston. In the photos the crowd just blurs and looks like part of the road or something, so you can’t get a good idea of the scale. I was really hoping for aerial footage, though tbf I haven’t gone looking.
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Some aerial footage here: www.9news.com.au/…/02f1a339-a25d-4c57-9d0e-32171e…
It only seems to show small parts of the protest at any one time. You can see in ground-level shots that the crowd is much bigger than it ever appears in the helicopter shots.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
That’s shockingly good reporting from 9. Acknowledging the excessive show of force from the police, and the difference between them being militarised and the anti-genocide protestors being old men and women with scarves. And not even as an afterthought, but as a really good chunk of the story.