This article originally appeared on The Guardian website on 4 April 2018.

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/04/victoria-police-who-beat-melbourne-pensioner-should-be-taken-off-their-job

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Lawyers have called for police captured in CCTV footage pinning down and beating a mentally unwell Melbourne pensioner to be immediately stood down, and have said similar incidents are occurring across Victoria every day.

Following the release of the footage by the ABC and Fairfax Media, lawyers gathered on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne on Wednesday morning to call for an end to police brutality.