Sydney radio broadcaster Ray Hadley has savaged his former 2GB colleague Alan Jones after he defended a man charged with hitting a police horse and suggested a Brazilian woman didn't die of Covid.
Hadley, who had worked with Jones for more than three decades at both 2GB and 2UE, said he had observed 'strange behaviour' over many years being at the same radio stations.
On Sky News on Monday night, Jones spoke up for Kristian Pulkownik, one of 63 people charged for protesting on Saturday against Sydney's lockdowns in defiance of a public health order.
Pulkownik, who failed to appear in court on Tuesday, was charged with affray, animal cruelty, joining in an illegal assembly and not complying with a Covid-19 health directive, after he was filmed touching the face of Tobruk, a police horse.
Jones argued the man he was simply trying to stop the animal running into him.
'In the video, you can see the horse turn around and all this 33-year-old tried to do was to stop the horse from turning on him so he put his hand up as any of us would,' he said.
'For that, and what you see, he's been charged with animal cruelty.'
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Sydney radio broadcaster Ray Hadley (pictured) has accused his former 2GB colleague Alan Jones of supporting violent anti-lockdowns protests after he defended a man charged with hitting a police horse
Jones spoke up for Kristian Pulkownik (pictured), who was charged with affray, animal cruelty, joining in an illegal assembly and not complying with a Covid-19 health directive, after he was filmed touching the face of Tobruk, a police horse
Jones also mocked Premier Gladys Berejiklian for promising the full force of the law would be brought against the rioters who defied a public health order.
'This is what you get as part of disproportionate responses to the coronavirus issue,' he said.
'I feel sorry for the police and the horses: they've been sooled on to the people by the Berejiklian Government.'
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