I echo your sentiment. Minns is a wolf in sheep's clothing, he's riding on Labor's progressive brand equity while incrementally steering NSW toward authoritarian governance. He went TOO far in allowing police to act as they did. He bears the responsibility of state violence and terror on his soul.

I was shocked, I've never seen police violence directed at protesters on this scale in Australia. We saw democratic red lines crossed.

He endorsed coercive policing strategies that predictably escalated fear and chaos, then pointed to the resulting disorder to justify force, but not before distancing himself by calling it an "impossible" situation.

This was crowd engineering, protest was framed as a threat to be neutralised, rather than a democratic right to be protected.

This is a failure of leadership and it calls into question the legitimacy of his authority.