Protester smuggles phone into Brisbane watch house and records secret video

An Extinction Rebellion protester has recorded a live video from inside a Brisbane watch house after smuggling a phone in past police.

An Extinction Rebellion protester has captured what it is like inside a Brisbane police watch house after smuggling her phone inside when she was arrested.

Emma Dorge, who goes by the name Emma Jade on Facebook, posted the live video on social media yesterday.

The 23-year-old claimed she was filming from inside the watch house on Roma St after being arrested for a breach of bail.

Above the video she told her followers to “resist” against the state.

“Our lives, our ecosystems are a stake. Every morning I wake up exhausted and terrified of the world we live in and how much worse it’s going to get,” she wrote.

Ms Dorge claimed she was able to sneak her phone in as the police were “bad at pat downs”.

“I thought this was a little bit fun because the cops are pretty bad at pat down searches,” she said.

“I am just laying down at a funny angle so they can’t see my phone in the camera behind me.”

In the 14 minute video she called on others to go to the CBD and start protesting for those who can’t.

Ms Dorge called others to action in the 14 minute video. Picture: Emma Jade/Facebook

“If you are out there and you’re not in lock up like me then you need to get into the city and support them and weaponise that privilege,” she said.

“The force exercised by the police today is just an extension of the British colonial invasion.

“If you have the privilege and ability to do something and you don’t then I am angry at you too.”

Ms Dorge became emotional throughout the video, saying she was filled with “complete despair” over the climate crisis.

“I am actually really emotional about this because I don’t understand why there isn’t more of you out here with us. We are doing this for you.”

At one point she pointed the camera around the room to show what the watch house looked like, describing it as “pretty sh*t”.

At the 14 minute mark the video abruptly cuts off as someone can be heard opening the door to the room.

Ms Dorge faced court yesterday for breaching her bail condition that banned her from entering the Brisbane CBD.

Sergeant Kelly opposed her bail but the application was rejected after Dorge explained to Ms Hall the incursion occurred only because police pulled the car in which she was a passenger into a side street that was in her no-go zone.

Dorge was released to reappear for the breach of bail and two other protest- related matters on three dates later in October.

MASS PROTESTS CONTINUE

Dozens of protesters have already been arrested in Melbourne, after Extinction Rebellion members blocked one of the busiest intersections in the CBD.

The fourth day of disruptive climate change protests has already seen at least 30 activists arrested.

Demonstrators caused headaches for commuters this morning after chaining themselves together and blocking an intersection outside Southern Cross Station.

Police were forced to use power tools to remove them and get traffic moving again.

Climate protestors are shutting down Southern Cross. This is what it looks like right now. @TheTodayShow @9NewsMelb pic.twitter.com/9j5kh3SzsV

— Izabella Staskowski (@IzaStaskowski) October 9, 2019

A group spokesman earlier told news.com.au they were planning to disrupt traffic but that was “all we are revealing at this stage”.

As many as 100 protesters have set up blockades all four corners of the intersection at Spencer and Collins streets, physically blocking peak hour traffic — including cars and trams — from passing through.

Several protesters, including an elderly woman, have already been arrested.

The group has been told to “go limp” if police try to drag them away to avoid resist arrest charges, the Herald Sun reports.

Other protesters caused chaos by supergluing themselves to King St Bridge and shutting it down for more than two hours.

Activists from Extinction Rebellion participate in a protest in Melbourne on Kings Way where some protesters have glued themselves to the road. Picture: David Crosling)/AAP

Police have now removed the final protester from the road.

In Brisbane, serial protester Eric Herbert, has been arrested for the 11th time after chaining himself to a car on William St just after 6.30am.

Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, has blasted Extinction Rebellion activists for “thumbing their nose at taxpayers”.

A number of the protesters, including ringleader Mr Herbert, have been arrested multiple times and continually let off without a conviction.

Many then keep returning to protest and breaching their bail conditions.

Hardcore group of climate change protesters have GLUED their hands to the King St bitumen. #ExtinctionRebellion pic.twitter.com/jWZxNhsctQ

— Paul Dowsley (@pauldowsley7) October 9, 2019

Mr Dutton told 2GB today that the only way the protesters will stop is to start billing them for their illegal demonstrations.

“The police need to recover the cost of these responses. There’s nothing else that will deter them from this life’s work, as they refer to it,” he told host Ray Hadley.

“And if they don’t pay the $40,000, then they’re locked up.

“That’s the best response at the moment because these people are flouting the law. They’re thumbing their nose at taxpayers.”

He called for Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, to hit the protesters with the “full force of the law”.

“These people are anarchists and fringe-dwellers and they should be feeling the full force of the law instead of the wet lettuce that’s being thrown at them by Annastacia Palaszczuk at the moment,” Mr Dutton said.

Extinction Rebellion ringleader, Mr Herbert, earlier chained himself to a device inside a vehicle at the Tower of Power, the Courier-Mail reports.

Climate protester Eric Herbert has chained himself to a car in Brisbane. Picture: Twitter: Bianca Stone

Mr Herbert was arrested after attaching himself to a station wagon not far from where other activists had blocked a busy intersection with a boat.

He was chained to the car for about four hours before being taken into custody.

The young protester was heard saying he was “terrified” and will “probably be in jail next week”.

#BREAKING Police are cutting into the @ExtinctionR boat to free protesters on George and Elizabeth St #Brisbane @couriermail pic.twitter.com/g0xzKqIw5X

— Cloe Read (@cloe_read) October 9, 2019

It follows three days of activity on the city’s streets as part of a so-called “Spring Rebellion”.

The group of at least 100 activists has planned to camp each night in Carlton Gardens.

Earlier this week, they stopped traffic outside Melbourne’s parliament. A woman who was trying to cross Collins Street to make arrangements after her mother’s death broke down in tears as she spoke with A Current Affair.

“Dad passed away 10 months ago and Mum passed away on Sunday at home in that building,” she said.

“I’m supposed to be there having hospital beds picked up, mats picked up, lifting machines picked up. I heard that these d**kheads were here yesterday so I rescheduled it, and I’ve come along this morning (and) they’re here again.”

Extinction Rebellion protesters in Melbourne yesterday. Picture: Jason Edwards

Reporter Reid Butler told Sally the protest was “for the environment” and “civil disobedience” was the tactic.

“F***ing environment. People are more important,” she said. “They think it’s so important but what is important is the everyday, good Australian people just trying to go about their everyday lives. It’s not fair.”

The protests have been carried out around the world. In London, one woman’s video went viral after she shared her disgust at the protesters.

The woman said she had to walk 20 minutes with a cancer patient to hospital because cars were blocked from major roads.

#ExtinctionRebellion - as u shut down main roads leading London hospitals, I walked 20mins with some 1 who has CANCER so they could get to hospital for a procedure, as the car couldn’t get thru. 20mins might not sound long but when u hav CANCER IT IS! Thanks Extinction Rebellion! pic.twitter.com/kqbkfASRos

— Adelina Ad (@AdelinaAd1) October 7, 2019

Spokeswoman for the Melbourne protesters, university student Natalie Acreman, said disrupting traffic was a “wake up call” for Australians about the real danger of doing nothing on climate change.

“In the next couple of decades, we’re looking at the total destruction of life as we know it if there is no genuine action taken,” she said in a statement.

“We need to totally transform the system … If I don’t act — if we don’t act — then nothing will change. We have a government that will barely acknowledge the crisis that we’re living through.

“We don’t have time to wait until the next election. We actually have to take this into our own hands and force the government into action.”

WHAT DO THE EXTINCTION REBELLION WANT?

Extinction Rebellion (XR for short) wants governments to declare a “climate and ecological emergency” and take immediate action to address climate change and its associated problems — from rising seas to food insecurity.

The organisation has three core demands:

• Tell the truth. The government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgent need for change.

• Net zero emissions by 2025. The government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025.

• Beyond politics. The government must create and be led by the decisions of a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological justice. Citizens’ assemblies bring together ordinary people to investigate, discuss and make recommendations on how to respond, in this case, to the ecological emergency.