Australian nationalist activist Thomas Sewell has been arrested over an incident where a homeless man attacked him as he was leading a demonstration through Melbourne’s CBD.
Footage obtained by Noticer News shows Mr Sewell, the leader of political organisation White Australia, being handcuffed at his in-laws’ home on Friday morning after police threatened to break a glass door down with a battering ram.
After first telling Mr Sewell that he wasn’t being charged and was only being asked to attend a voluntary interview over an alleged affray and assault, officers said he would be arrested if he did not come outside, and that they “didn’t need” signed documents to take him into custody.
Australian nationalist Thomas Sewell has been arrested over an incident where a homeless man attacked him as he led a march through Melbourne.
Police first asked him to come in for a voluntary interview, but threatened to break his door down and handcuffed him when he refused. pic.twitter.com/OztCisfdAj
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“Look what you’re doing to my family – you know I haven’t committed a crime,” Mr Sewell told the officers, who did not have their body worn cameras attached, after opening the door.
“You have no legal right to be here, you’re trespassing on this property.”
One of the officers said “Thomas you need to come with us”, and when Mr Sewell asked if he was under arrest, the officer then said “yes, you are”.
“There we go, we’re under arrest, you didn’t say that before, did you?” Mr Sewell replied.
“I am under arrest for defending myself.”
Mr Sewell then told the officer he was a “thug and a goon”.
“You’re a goon for the Jews, that’s what you are, that’s all you are, you’re a goon for the Jews,” he said as he was taken away.
New video shows the moment an aggressive homeless man attacks demonstration leader Thomas Sewell during the National Socialist Network’s march through Melbourne.
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Video footage of the march by the National Socialist Network through Melbourne’s CBD earlier this months shows a man running up to Mr Sewell as he walked at the head of a column of about 150 activists, spitting at him and punching him multiple times.
The video shows Mr Sewell responding with punches of his own before knocking the man to the ground.
Police said after the march that a man of no fixed address was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Photos of Mr Sewell taken after the march show him with cuts to his ear and temple, and earlier this week he told reporters that he had also suffered a back injury as a result of the attack.
“I was attacked by a deluded deranged person that decided to jump in front of the ‘White man fight back’ rally,” he said, and showed journalists the injuries to the side of his head.
“We were performing a peaceful demonstration in the city, which we have the right to do as Australian citizens, I was attacked at the front of that rally by a deranged lunatic, and I defended myself.”
Header image: Left, Mr Sewell being arrested. Right, the clash with the homeless man (supplied).
