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Aussie rules football brawl
Police feared for their safety when they turned up to a disturbance at a sporting field on Groote Eylandt to discover it had escalated to a full scale brawl. The brawl, involving several hundred people, some of them armed with axes and spears, broke out about 5pm (CST) on Sunday at the Angurugu sports oval during an AFL match.
Northern Territory Police have been unable to confirm how many people were directly engaged in the brawl, but Superintendent Brent Warren said there were about 500 people in the area when police arrived. "A number of those people were armed with axes and spears and a large number were involved in hostile and aggressive behaviour, which was later directed at police," he said. "The guys (officers) that attended were concerned for their own safety and obviously the safety of at least one man who had already been injured. "As you can imagine, even when a number of police cars turn up, when you've got a crowd that's potentially 500-strong, it's difficult to take proactive action at the time. "That's why we tend to respond to these kind of incidents by doing the follow-up investigation the next day and taking action against individuals we can identify later on." No arrests have been made, but Supt Warren said police would lay charges in the near future. "Police are confident they have identified some of the people involved," he said. Posted by: tipper 2009-11-09 |
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