Police have used capsicum spray to interrupt up a violent brawl involving dozens of individuals in Melbourne's CBD.
Footage reveals the second the combat broke out, simply after 2am on Monday on Lonsdale Avenue.
A Victoria Police spokesperson stated folks left the scene after police arrived, nevertheless plenty of girls saved preventing.
"Officers tried to supply after-care to these uncovered to the spray however nobody got here ahead," the spokesperson stated.
After the brawl, police stopped a automobile leaving the scene of the combat.
A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with affray and weapons offences after police allegedly situated a knife on him.
Coward punch campaigner Caterina Politi, whose son died on an evening out, warned it may have been a really totally different finish, after seeing the imaginative and prescient.
"They're younger youngsters and it's a night time out that's innocent till it turns into a severe assault or dying," she stated.
Police stated the investigation is ongoing.