Six police bashed as mobs run amok

SIX police across the State were set upon and bashed by drunken mobs over the Australia Day long weekend. One policewoman was hospitalised after being punched and kicked by several people when she tried to make an arrest at St Helens. The constable received face, chest and abdominal injuries after she and other police were called to a disturbance involving up to 100 people on Saturday night.
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In other incidents on Saturday night, a policeman was kicked in the face and spat on when trying to make an arrest at Exton, near Deloraine. At Invermay, a man who police allege had attacked his ex-girlfriend, and was chasing her, assaulted the policeman who tried to arrest him.A 19-year-old man was charged with wounding after he allegedly king-hit a policeman with a full bottle of beer at White Beach, on the Tasman Peninsula, at 1am on Sunday. The policeman was taken to hospital with serious lacerations to the back of his head.