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An indigenous attorney-general has launched a blistering attack on an inner city Melbourne Greens senator who assumed she was a white man .
During a speech in Canberra on Tuesday, Senator Lidia Thorpe assumed NT Attorney-General Selena Uibo was a man who was hopefully white.
Senator Thorpe, a Gunnai Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung woman, was delivering a speech about changes to youth bail laws when she made the blunder. I do hope the Attorney-General, given he probably didn t read the royal commission recommendations, hopefully he listens to these experts, she said. Hopefully, they re white. You know, white is right in this place.
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The Northern Territory Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of Mr Manggurra - noting alternative measures could have been taken when making the arrest.
Supreme Court Justice Judith Kelly said the actions of police escalated, rather than de-escalated the situation .
“I have reasonable doubt whether the police officers were acting in the execution of their duty,” she wrote in her judgement.
“There were reasonably available options, continuing to talk when the appellant made meaningful responses, negotiating to put the taser away and talk, giving the appellant the option of checking with his lawyer before handcuffing him and taking him to a cell.
Aboriginal man tasered by police in Northern Territory acquitted on appeal
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An Aboriginal man charged with assaulting and resisting police after he was tasered in a remote police station has had his convictions overturned on appeal.
Key points:
Three charges against Johannes Mangurra were overturned
Body-worn video tendered in the case shows the interaction during the arrest in Numbulwar escalated
The ruling follows a lengthy court battle during which 24-year-old Johannes Mangurra s lawyers labelled his treatment in police custody outrageous and argued the force used by NT police officers was unnecessary.