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September 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Outraged members of Sydney’s Muslim community told police about incendiary text messages before a violent protest erupted over a video mocking Islam.
Six men were arrested following clashes on Saturday that saw two police officers and 17 others injured as protesters targeted the US consulate in Martin Place.
While police had been unaware of the planned time for the demonstration, NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said members of the public told police about the incendiary text messages.
“Many of them were sent to us by people within the community who were outraged by what they were receiving on their SMS system or on their Facebook page and so they brought them to our attention,” Mr Scipione told reporters on Monday.
Mr Scipione said police were ready for another possible protest this weekend.
But he downplayed comments from his deputy, Nick Kaldas, that police were caught unaware, having prepared for a Sunday rally.
“That’s assuming that we were caught by surprise,” Mr Scipione said.
“The reality is that we had some information coming in. We had a range of officers strategically staged throughout the city.”
Mr Scipione said the protest organisers had not made an official application to hold a demonstration but “intelligence was made available to us which allowed the city to start preparing and to bring officers in”.
The police commissioner also defended the decision not to deploy a water cannon after Premier Barry O’Farrell suggested it would have been a good idea.
“We had a tactical adviser on the ground, he happens to be the head of the riot squad in NSW – that’s his call,” Mr Scipione said.
“His decision was that in this situation it wouldn’t have been the right item of equipment, so it wasn’t used.
“What I won’t be doing is pre-empting or in fact putting into the minds of those that are my experts, opinions that are probably far from being expert.”
Mr Scipione also defended the low number of arrests made, arguing this would have withdrawn officers from a volatile situation.
“To arrest an offender, to take an offender away, it means you are going to take police officers off the line – you potentially will have breaches because of the lack of staff if you start making mass arrests,” he said.
Mr Scipione said police were prepared for another potential riot this weekend.
“You can be assured that we’ll have all of the resources that we need in the right place at the right time to deal with whatever might eventuate … be it next weekend or any other weekend,” he said.
NSW Police Minister Michael Gallacher told the same news conference that a young man caught on camera smashing a police car with a milk crate would be arrested soon.
“He’ll also be coming to a police station near him very shortly,” he said.
“I was disgusted with what I saw, I was disgusted with the way in which I think some innocent people have been hijacked in relation to this protest.”
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