reported on an interaction involving Senior Constable Mark Follington of New South Wales Police, and transgender woman Anya Bradford, which saw the woman pepper sprayed and left with a black eye and cuts to her wrist, after being unable to provide photo ID while at the Railway Hotel in Liverpool in May 2019.“The larger officer picked me up by the handcuffs, like I was on a leash, like I was a dog, then he dragged me out… laughing,” Bradford said. “My head hit the corner of the room and then he put his knee on my chest so I couldn’t breathe and the smaller officer [Brown] was throwing punches to my face.”Despite Follington pleading not guilty to the charges including assault and tampering with evidence, he has now been forced to conceded.