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Fact Checking Claims That Melbourne Protesters Were ‘Shot in the Back’
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Fact Checking Claims That Melbourne Protesters Were ‘Shot in the Back’

Police used rubber bullets on demonstrators in Australia.
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Fact Checking Claims That Melbourne Protesters Were ‘Shot in the Back’

A viral tweet claims to show anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne, Australia, being “shot in the back as they run away from [the police].”

Hundreds of protesters gathered in Melbourne—the capital of the Australian state of Victoria—several days this week to protest vaccine mandates and lockdown measures.

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Alec Dent is a former culture editor and staff writer for The Dispatch.

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