Overview

• Prosecutors told Bankstown Local Court there would be no further proceedings, withdrawing and dismissing all charges against the former Greens candidate.
• Her legal team says it will file a Supreme Court claim alleging assault and battery, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in public office, and collateral abuse of process.
• Thomas sustained a severe eye injury during the arrest that required multiple surgeries, with doctors warning she may never regain vision in her right eye.
• One initial count relied on a rarely used Cronulla riot–era emergency power before police shifted to a standard move-on offence, then dropped the case entirely.
• Four other protesters arrested at the Belmore action remain before the courts as an internal review continues under police watchdog oversight.