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I keep getting confused whenever I see a Bondi story title, because it takes me a few seconds to realize whether it's about the evil event in Australia or the evil AG in the US... An American man being charged by Pam Bondi for wearing a Fuck Israel T-shirt would be a totally plausible story too.
Just before Christmas, as a nation grieved and feuded in the truculent aftermath of the Bondi terror attacks, police dropped all three criminal charges against the man who wore a Fuck Israel Fuck Zionism tee-shirt in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.
Andrew Brown, a businessman, Palestinian supporter and former deputy mayor of Mosman, will be seeking costs and a damages claim against NSW Police. He had intended to defend the claims by invoking Australia’s Constitution and its implied protections for political communication. And had the money to do it.
Brown was arrested more than a year ago; in public on Bondi Beach, then he says he was led along the sand, paraded around Bondi “like a prop in a public lesson”. Charges followed. Bail conditions followed. A year of legal struggle ensued. And now, he says, the whole thing has been quietly abandoned.
The charges are from last year, unrelated to the recent shooting