To keep the violence from getting worse, officers had to purchase barricades filled with water to keep the factions apart.
Unsettling video showed a number of demonstrators exchanging blows before others ripped at the arresting policemen’ arms.
After being pushed to the ground on Spring Street, former Animal Justice Party MP Andy Meddick was captured on camera waving his finger and telling reporters, “I want him arrested for assault.”
Earlier, he was reportedly escorted with a transgender flag from Parliament House’s front steps.
