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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.
Principal apologises to parents and police for Black Lives Matter posters in class
Students at Lindfield Learning Village in Sydney s north made BLM placards
The posters featured the words stop killer cops and pigs out of the country
Principal says exercise was for students to identify things they d seen in news
NSW Police Minister David Elliott said the teacher of the class should be sacked
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In February, students in years 5 and 6 at Lindfield Learning Village, an unorthodox public school on Sydney’s upper north shore, began a history unit on freedom and rights in Australia. Their teacher asked them to create posters reflecting what they already knew - from the media, perhaps, or their parents - about some key moments in recent Indigenous history.
One created a Black Lives Matter poster. Another poster read ‘stop killer cops’, with ‘pigs out of the country’ written underneath. A picture of the posters, taken by a visitor, ran in
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