Lucy Rogers on Senior Sergeant Vaughan Perry

Lucy Rogers writes at The Good Oil:

As readers may recall, in February 2025 the IPCA published a report about my arrest on 25 November 2023, finding that, while I was silently and peacefully counter-protesting an anti-Israel march on Queen Street, police officers wrongfully assaulted me, wrongfully took my sign off me, wrongfully arrested me and then told serious lies about me to justify it. (My sign said SELECTIVE CONDEMNATION OF GENOCIDE IS EVIL.)

Officer Q is Senior Sergeant Vaughan Perry

By far the most serious lies about me were told by Senior Sergeant Vaughan Perry, identified by the IPCA only as “Officer Q”. Perry was the most senior officer present and was also the public order policing commander for the entire police operation monitoring the anti-Israel protest that day.

Perry’s claims

Perry claimed that I was “yelling” at people and that my actions were so extreme that he thought I was “suffering from mental illness”. He claimed that my “behaviour was heightened to a degree of excited delirium” and that he “assessed the threat [to me] as high [due to my] heighten (sic), unpredictable, erratic, belligerent behaviour [I] was demonstrating towards the Palestian (sic) rally attendees”. He also says that he believes that my actions were “deliberate in intent to cause psychological harm to the Palastine (sic) people”.

He was lying

I shall not rehash the facts about my case here, but, suffice it to say, none of this has the slightest basis in fact. I did not say a single word to the protesters (let alone yell) and none of them yelled at me. In fact, hardly any of them even took any notice of me. If you would like to see what really happened, you can see footage here:

You can read the full post over on Cam’s blog. Lucy really doesn’t like cops that make things up.