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The residents of a Melbourne aged care home with no active coronavirus cases have been told that if they leave to visit a doctor, they must stay in their rooms for a fortnight upon their return.

Lawyer Jeremy King has called for a police officer to be stood down over his actions during the arrest of Melbourne man Timothy Atkins.

Several examples of police taking a heavy-handed approach to dealing with COVID-19 breaches at the weekend have prompted Neil Mitchell to suggest police are “getting it wrong”.

A man is in an induced coma in a Melbourne hospital after his head was stomped on by a police officer as he was arrested on Sunday afternoon, his lawyer says.

A construction worker has accused police officers of knocking him off his bike, assaulting him and calling him a "black c***" while he was riding his bike to work in inner Melbourne.

Mr Penny's lawyer, Jeremy King from Robinson Gill, called for an urgent and independent investigation.

An Aboriginal man says police officers threw him off his bicycle, pinned him to the ground and called him a "black c---" while he was riding to work at dawn without his bike lights on.