Police are investigating a brawl at the Summernats festival in Canberra involving patrons and people identified as 'crowd safety' officers. The incident happened yesterday afternoon and videos have spread across social media.
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00:00 It's our responsibility to make sure that everyone that comes here gets to go home safe
00:05 and happy.
00:07 When that doesn't happen, we also need to look at that really carefully too.
00:10 But they're keen to stress it was an isolated incident.
00:13 We had a plan that we'd worked out really carefully all year.
00:15 Should something like that happen, we implemented it and resolved the issue.
00:19 The brawl threatened to overshadow the final day of SummerNats.
00:23 Queenslander Joe Bower was named the festival's grand champion for his restoration of a 1916
00:29 Dodge Charger he brought out from Texas.
00:32 I unveiled it here on Thursday and to take out people's choice of the grand champion
00:38 man is just unbelievable for me.
00:40 And last night, crowd favourite Andrew Lynch took out the Burnout competition.
00:44 A sight, sound and smell Canberrans can again look forward to this time next year.
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