Kate Hawkesby: Police acted too little, too late

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 2, 2022 · 3m

Too little too late would be my assessment of yesterday's clear out of the protestors.

And when I say clear out - there's still a few there, but the most obvious question is why on earth it took so long to get to this point?

Surely what happened yesterday could’ve happened week one, before it grew, got infrastructure and spread around other cities.

To let it get entrenched to the point where riot police with shields and pepper spray had to be called in to clear it out, is to have left it far too long. I wonder if Coster, in his quiet moments (of which there appear to be far too many), ponders…