Senior Australian police officer sensationally quits during interview, says 'vast majority' of cops don't believe in COVID orders



A senior police officer in Australia is being investigated after she sensationally resigned from the Victoria Police force during a live interview. The cop, who said her law enforcement employment was "the best job" she ever had, revealed that a "vast majority" of her former officers don't believe in and don't want to enforce the strict COVID-19 orders enacted in Australia.

Former Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell made a splash by publicly resigning during a revealing interview on Friday. On her way out, Mitchell said government orders to enforce COVID-19 orders troubled her "greatly" after seeing "the damage it is causing the community."

Sergeant Mitchell was working in the Gender Equality and Inclusion Command, which she described as "the best job I've ever had."

"I couldn't be happier in terms of the work that I do on a daily basis," she said in the interview with Australian media studio Discernable.

"There was a big thought process and battle of morals and integrity within me about what I wanted to do and how I see my organization being used during this pandemic and it troubled me greatly," Mitchell told Discernable host and founder Matthew Wong.

"The consequences of me being here today is that I will be resigning from Victoria Police, effective at the end of this interview, because the consequences of me coming out publicly would be dismissal," she said. "So I'm choosing to quit, and I'm quitting because I can't remedy in my soul anymore the way in which my organization that I love to work for is being used and the damage it's causing in the reputation of Victoria Police and the damage it's causing to the community."

"My partner and I were out walking during our two hours of exercise on the weekend and there were police everywhere," Mitchell explained. "There was just police everywhere doing their 'reassurance patrols.' They're not 'reassurance patrols.' You're not reassuring anybody in the community. You're scaring people in the community that there's that many police out in the city trying to stop mass gatherings or what have you."

"The police don't want to look you in the eye; you don't want to look the police in the eye," she added. "There's this air of comfortability about it all."

"But behind that is all of my friends that are police officers, that are working the front line and are suffering every day enforcing [the Victorian chief health officer's] directions that a vast majority, or certainly a great majority, don't believe in and don't want to enforce," Mitchell continued.

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Mitchell – who has worked with the Victoria Police for more than 16 years – said the disconnect between police and citizens has "been growing since March 2020."

"The way in which we police now has completely changed," she revealed. "And the vast majority of the police are on directions that are infringements on your everyday liberties and rights to just freely live in a democratic society."

"In part, the reason that I wanted to do this whilst still serving and wearing the uniform today is so that the community can see that it isn't all police that are against them and for police to see that it isn't all protesters that are coming there to fight with you. It's a minority," Mitchell said. "There's a minority on both sides and they're the ones getting the attention in the media. The minority of the police … are using more force than is necessary to effect these arrests at protests, or to enforce [chief health officer] directions."

Mitchell is currently on personal leave and will not return to the police force.

Mitchell will be investigated by Victoria Police's Professional Standards Command.

The Victoria Police issued a statement on Mitchell's bold and public resignation.

"The comments in this interview in no way reflect the views of Victoria Police," the statement reads. "The CHO directions are based on health advice and set by the Victorian Government. Victoria Police cannot pick and choose what laws it enforces. We acknowledge this has been an extremely difficult time for all Victorians who have had to give up so much. Just like the community, Victoria Police looks forward to the easing of restrictions and the eventual return to pre-COVID life."

Melbourne, the capital and most-populated city of Victoria, has been in lockdown for 252 days – the longest any city has been restricted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the draconian lockdowns, Victoria had 1,965 COVID-19 cases on Friday, which is the highest number during the entire pandemic.

There have been massive anti-lockdown rallies in Australia. During the protests in Melbourne two weeks ago, police were caught on video being brutally violent against unarmed citizens.

You can watch the entire interview with former Acting Senior Sergeant Krystle Mitchell below.

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Australians erupt after PM takes advantage of COVID double standards to see family while millions remain in lockdown: ‘What a disgrace of a leader’



Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is facing intense backlash from many of his own constituents this week after the leader took advantage of his position to skirt COVID-19 lockdown measures.

What are the details?

Morrison traveled to New South Wales over the weekend in a private jet to visit family on Australian Father's Day even as millions in the country remained in lockdown and were unable to visit out-of-state family members, the New York Times reported.

The prime minister spent time in Sydney before returning to Canberra to partake in a national security meeting, an action which critics immediately labeled as an example of double standards.

Yet instead of owning up to the blunder, Morrison defended the move in an interview published Tuesday, telling Sky News that while he understood people's frustration, his trip did not violate any lockdown rules.

Health authorities reportedly approved Morrison's trip due to his unique role as an "essential worker." Politicians in the country have been permitted to bypass certain public health measures in order to conduct official business.

What has been the reaction?

Though Morrison's trip may have been technically valid, it was certainly not a wise public relations move. After news broke about the trip, Australians took to social media to denounce the prime minister's hypocrisy.

"One rule for all the other dads separated by border closures and one rule for the PM!" wrote one user.

"What a disgrace of a leader," added another.

"True leadership is hard. Sometimes it means putting country before family," wrote Labor MP Andrew Leigh. "Whether it's holidaying in Hawaii during bushfires, visiting UK pubs, or popping interstate on Father's Day, Morrison often struggles to make the sacrifices the job demands."

"Scott Morrison took a private jet to see his kids over father's day while the rest of Australian families suffered through [one] the worst lockdowns on the planet," another commenter jousted, adding, "Top bloke."

Labor opposition MP Bill Shorten criticized Morrison for exercising "appalling judgment."

"It's not that he doesn't deserve to see his kids, but so does every other Australian. And I think when your people are doing it tough, you've got to do it tough too," Shorten said. "You can't have one rule for Mr. Morrison and another rule for everyone else."

What else?

In his interview with Sky News, Morrison called Shorten's criticism a "cheap shot."

"Well, it's a bit of a cheap shot, to be honest. I mean Bill knows full well what these rules are ... in fact he took advantage of them. He went home and spent the last three weeks there rather than being in parliament," the prime minister noted.

It's not clear at this point whether Morrison's lines of defense will prevail. The leader is already in hot water with constituents for allegedly mismanaging the country's vaccine rollout and keeping draconian lockdown measures in place.

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Rescue dogs shot dead in Australia by council due to coronavirus restrictions sparks outrage: 'Deranged COVID insanity'



A local government in Australia shot and killed rescue dogs because they feared that COVID-19 would spread if people traveled to the shelter to pick them up. The killing of the animals has ignited outrage, and many commenters believe Australia is suffering from coronavirus "hysteria."

The governing body in the Orana region of New South Wales declared that several rescued dogs at a shelter were a health hazard, so the council had the animals shot to death.

The Bourke Shire Council "killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from traveling to pick up the animals last week, according to the council's watchdog," the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

According to the NSW Health website, there were no recent coronavirus cases in the town of Cobar, but there were fragments of COVID-19 detected in the area's sewage treatment plant.

A spokesperson for the Office of Local Government, which holds the local government sector in Australia accountable for its actions, said, "OLG has been informed that the council decided to take this course of action to protect its employees and community, including vulnerable Aboriginal populations, from the risk of COVID-19 transmission."

"Councils are also encouraged to continue to work with re-homing organizations and volunteers to care for animals, where that can be undertaken consistent with NSW Health advice," the spokesman said.

A source familiar with the animal shelter said the establishment had safe COVID-19 measures in place to handle the dogs during the pandemic.

Lisa Ryan, the coordinator of regional campaigns for the Animal Liberation human rights organization, demanded an investigation, "We are deeply distressed and completely appalled by this callous dog shooting and we totally reject council's unacceptable justifications that this killing was apparently undertaken as part of a COVID- safe plan."

The Sydney Morning Herald contacted the Bourke Shire Council for comment, but reportedly received no response.

The story from Australia quickly spread on social media, sparking outrage and shock.

  • Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald: "Australia is absolutely consumed by deranged COVID insanity. Now they're shooting and killing rescued dogs to prevent shelter volunteers from leaving their homes to go pick them up and care for them. Many Australians seem grateful to be locked down."
  • Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York: "Australia seems to have gone completely insane over Covid."
  • British broadcaster Piers Morgan: "Sorry, WHAT????!!!"
  • The Heritage Foundation social media manager Lyndsey Fifield: "It would be horrific enough if they'd euthanized them by injection but they SHOT DOGS ARE YOU KIDDING ME."
  • British journalist Neil Clark: "What a terrible place Australia is at the moment. A police-state 'public health' dictatorship."
  • PJ Media writer Stacey Lennox: "This is just deranged. Australia is at peak mass hysteria and their leaders are fully demented at this point."
  • British journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy: "The extent to which Australia has turned a COVID advantage into massive, bizarre and tragic mess is astonishing : Rescue dogs shot dead by NSW council due to COVID-19 restrictions."
  • We Are Change writer Luke Rudkowski: "Evil knows no bounds when government and police officers get to do whatever they want!"
  • Foundation for Economic Education content manager Hannah Cox: "Australia had lost its ever-loving mind."
  • Journalist Ian Miles Cheong: "Between shooting rescue dogs dead, slamming peacefully protesting elderly women onto the curb, firing into crowds with rubber bullets and tear gas, and putting out arrest warrants for people with COVID who go outside, Australia has absolutely lost the plot. Dystopian hell state."

There were massive protests against COVID-19 lockdowns in several cities across Australia on Saturday. In Melbourne, the protests became violent at times as anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police. Over 200 were arrested, huge fines were levied, and six police officers were hospitalized during the demonstrations.

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