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What Is A ‘Spit Hood’?
Spit hoods are a mesh-fabric hood designed for restraint that conceal the face and they’re generally fixed at the base with a band around the neck.
In theory, they’re used to protect corrections workers from spitting or biting.
Speaking to Junkee earlier this year, Morrison’s sibling Latoya Rule, said that asphyxiation from use of spit hoods is a common issue that occurs in cases of Indigenous deaths in custody.
Rule wrote on the change.org petition that the family “cannot bring Fella back” but “know there is at least one thing we can do to prevent other families from experiencing a tragedy like ours ban the use of spit hoods.”
He had no criminal convictions and was being held on remand while waiting to appear in the Elizabeth magistrates court over video link.
It had been expected that the coroner would hear evidence from seven prison guards who were with Morrison in the back of a prison transport van.
No video footage exists of the two minute and five-second trip.
Lawyers for the officers have already flagged that their clients will claim “penalty privilege” during each of their appearances to avoid talking about the trip.
Penalty privilege allows those appearing before the South Australian coroner to refuse to answer a question on the basis it may incriminate them in future proceedings or disciplinary action within their workplace.