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> Australian police clashed with hundreds of anti-lockdown protesters in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday as officials reported the country's highest ever single-day rise in Covid-19 cases.
> Mounted police used pepper spray in Melbourne to break up crowds surging toward police lines, while smaller groups of protesters were prevented from congregating in Sydney by a large contingent of riot police.
> Police patrolled Sydney's streets and blocked both private and public transport into the center of the city to reduce the number of people gathering at an unauthorized protest.
> In Melbourne, a large crowd managed to march through the city, with some protesters clashing with police, after state Premier Daniel Andrews expanded a lockdown in that city to entire state.
> Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton had earlier warned people to stay away from the protest, adding it was "Just ridiculous to think that people would be so selfish and come and do this."
> Several hundred people also protested peacefully in Brisbane, which is not in lockdown.
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Police have released a video of the moment a man pointed an imitation firearm at kebab shop staff after he refused to wear a face mask inside.
Paul Griffiths was jailed last month after pleading guilty to several charges - including pulling out the paintball-type firearm inside the Rhondda Takeaway in the village of Pentre, South Wales.
A customer and a delivery driver jumped behind the counter and feared they were going to be shot during their terrifying ordeal at around 10.15pm on 5 November last year.
Officers have now shared CCTV footage which showed the 57-year-old being asked to wait outside because he refused to wear a mask.
Griffiths then refused to leave before taking the imitation gun out of his pocket and pointing it at staff, including the shop owner.
A police spokesman said: "A customer and a delivery driver dived behind the counter... the delivery driver then ran to the living quarters and told people to lock the door, before running out of the back of the shop and calling 999."
During a recording of the 999 call released by South Wales Police, the delivery driver sounded out of breath as he said: "We've got a guy who pulled a gun out on us in Rhondda Takeaway... he was arguing about masks, we were arguing back, and then he pulled a gun out."
The firearm was a prohibited CO2-powered paintball-type gun, but while in custody officers obtained a warrant to search Griffiths' home and discovered he was hiding a cannabis factory.
Griffiths, from Ystrad in the Rhondda Fawr valley, pleaded guilty to possessing an imitation firearm in a public place with intent to cause fear of violence, possessing a prohibited weapon, and cannabis production.
He was jailed for 20 months at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court on 20 May this year.
