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Thereâs a link between the over-policing of Indigenous kids and our people dying in custody
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Our childrenâs innocence is stolen, and the system presents them with a life in and out of prison
âWe are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.â Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images
âWe are the most incarcerated people on earth but we are not born to die in custody.â Photograph: David Gray/Getty Images
Fri 30 Apr 2021 01.20 EDT
First published on Fri 30 Apr 2021 00.40 EDT
If Australia is serious about ending Black deaths in custody, we need to put an end to the overpolicing of Black communities. The criminalising of our children can kickstart a lifetime within the police and prison system.
Jo Faith, Newtown
Derek Chauvin, the American cop who continued sitting on the neck of George Floyd as he endured his death cycle mutterering for nearly 10 minutes, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ has been convicted of two counts of murder, and one of manslaughter. His crime? He was a Black man in America.
In Australia, the campaign for justice for young David Dungay continues. Davids crime? He was a Black man who was a diabetic and refused to give the prison guards the packet of biscuits he was eating. This crime ‘justified’ the need for Corrective Services to call in the ‘De-escalating Team’ who pounced on David’s neck. A nurse administered a ‘tranquiliser’: a needle that is used on Death Row in America. A team of four to five ‘De-escalating team members’ maintained this choke-hold on David. He constantly repeated ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe’. Amongst the last words he heard before he departed Earth was one of the choke-hold De-
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody are often given as statistics. But behind those numbers are real people and an indescribable impact on the families and communities who loved them. They are the strongest advocates for those who have died in custody, and in reform of the system.
The 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report whose 30th anniversary was observed on April 15 makes recommendations that address the necessity of self-determination for Aboriginal families and communities.
However, acts of self-determination, such as calls for community-led changes to the justice system, have been ignored.
Indigenous-led solutions
Only a handful of the 339 recommendations of the royal commission relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities grieving a death in custody.
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Spurred on by One Nation’s Mark Latham and the Sydney tabloid media, the NSW Police minister has accused a popular north shore school of condoning ‘anti-police propaganda’.
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Osman Faruqi.
NSW Minister for Police David Elliott.
Credit: AAP / Joel Carrett
On Wednesday morning, as Australians were waking to news of the verdict in the trial of Derek Chauvin – the police officer whose murder of George Floyd last year sparked a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement – New South Wales Police Minister David Elliott was in the middle of his own media blitz about BLM.
Elliott wasn’t, however, commenting on the outcome in the Chauvin trial. Nor was he reflecting on the demands of the movement in Australia – demands that became even more urgent following the death of five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in custody in a six-week period earlier this year.