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Subscriber only A man who placed both his hands on a police officer outside a Yeppoon pub has been fined $800. Braith William Whitfield, 18, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court on Thursday to obstructing a police officer in the vicinity of a licensed premises. The court heard that on January 27, at 2.30am, police were conducting patrols of the Yeppoon CBD when they saw a disturbance outside the Pacific Hotel. An officer got out of the vehicle and observed a number of intoxicated people yelling abuse and racist remarks at an Indigenous man. Police told the group to move away from the entrance to the hotel.