Man wearing novelty shirt among LNP campaigners arrested in Brisbane

Man wearing novelty shirt among LNP campaigners arrested in Brisbane

Queensland Election 2015: Man wearing ‘I’m with stupid’ T-shirt among LNP campaigners arrested by 10 police in Brisbane

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  Paul Syvret
  
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  The Courier-Mail
  
  
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  January 08, 2015
  11:35AM
  

Man wearing 'I'm with stupid' T-shirt among LNP campaigners arrested by 10 police in Brisbane

Iain Fogerty wearing his ‘I’m
with stupid’ T-shirt among LNP campaigners in Brisbane. Mr Fogerty was
arrested by 10 police for ‘public nuisance’. Picture: Judi Jabour

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THE Queensland campaign has been marred by its first arrest, with
police taking a man wearing an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt into custody
for allegedly being a “public nuisance”.

The arrest occurred Thursday morning on the Corner of Martin and
Brunswick Streets in Fortitude Valley, where campaign teams from the
Labor and Liberal parties had set up on opposite sides of the road.

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The arrested man, Iain Fogerty of New Farm, was released on watchhouse bail, and is due back in court on February 4.

Mr Fogerty operates the Not Campbell Newman parody account on Twitter.

Senator Claire Moore, who was with Labor candidate Grace Grace’s team, described the police response as “just ridiculous”.

Ten police attend the ‘public
nuisance’ call to arrest Iain Fogerty, a man wearing an ‘I’m with
stupid’ t-shirt and standing among LNP campaigners on a Brisbane street.
Picture: Judi Jabour

“I have been campaigning for more years than I care to recall and I have never seen anything like this before,” she said.

Ms
Moore said the man in the “I’m with stupid” shirt — which she said was
not associated with the ALP campaign — inserted himself among the LNP
campaigners much to the amusement of onlookers.

Before long three
patrol cars and a paddy wagon with an estimated 10 police officers
arrived to arrest Mr Fogerty on the basis of having received two
complaints.

“It was just totally over the top,” Ms Moore said.

“Rather than telling the bloke to just move on, they arrest him.”

Despite his T-shirt, Iain Fogerty had a few LNP campaigners waving along with him. Picture: Judi Jabour

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