This is a massively impressive feat of coordination, bloody hell.
Activists standing in solidarity of Indigenous issues and the push to move the date of Australia Day have managed to halt an in-service commuter train in Brisbane, and paint one whole side of a carriage in the Indigenous flag.
A bit before 6am yesterday morning, around 12 people descended on the train at Dutton Park Station, just south of central Brisbane. Jamming its doors open, which as a result prevented the train from moving, the group then used spray paint to paint the Indigenous flag all the side of an entire carriage, with the slogan “one mob” emblazoned inside the yellow sun.
QLD Rail staff watched the whole thing unfold via CCTV links, and they did call the police on the group. But by the time cops arrived at the scene, the group had finished their work and had left the scene.
Police investigating how a passenger train carriage was ambushed and vandalised @GreenhalghSarah #7News https://t.co/XsFJpMBYqN
— 7 News Queensland (@7NewsQueensland) January 26, 2017
A group by the name of VNDS Crew claimed responsibility for the carriage in an Instagram post, but that account has subsequently been deleted.
12 people with spray paint managed to get that done before police were able to get there. How long was the police response time? An hour?
Regardless, that’s a massive effort. Technically illegal? Sure. But if you want to get a point across, that’s about as loud a way as there is.
The carriage, for what it’s worth, has since been cleaned. Police are still looking for those responsible.
Source: 7 News Queensland/Twitter.
