Aboriginal community shaken by second death in Australian police custody

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• goodthanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Shame to see comments here disregarding intergenerational disadvantage. I guess the classic Aussie racist fuckwit attitude has infiltrated the fediverse finally

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• muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Look people dying is never good but so far this issue has effected 0.00000000071% of the countries population.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thats not how statistics work. If anything you would have to look at frequency of police custody deaths and check if this is an anomaly or a trend.

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We did, it turns out per capita white men died more often, in the last few years it looks like 3:1:

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      aic.gov.au/…/deaths-custody-australia-quarterly

      They are commit per capita significantly higher amount of crime:

      Indigenous people are 15 to 20 times more likely to commit violent offences than non-Indigenous people according to research released today.

      www.abc.net.au/news/2010-04-08/…/2602494

      Which is what happened in this case as well

      Speaking in Darwin on Tuesday afternoon, Assistant Commissioner Travis Wurst said the man, believed to be from Alice Springs, “was placing items down the front of [his] clothing” when he was confronted by security guards.

      “One of the security guards was assaulted and there were two police officers, who were in plain clothes at the time, in the supermarket who rendered assistance to the security guards,” he said.

      “The male behaved rather aggressively and was placed onto the ground by those police officers, he was later identified as losing consciousness.”

      www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/…/105344116

      Many of them live out in the middle of no where are bored and out of work, surrounded by criminals and go no where in life, not much you can really do

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    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not trying to compare custody death rates between different groups I’m simply questioning the relevance of this article as a whole. I think its far more effective for us to be focusing on issue that effect most people before we worry about solving an issue that effects a fraction of a fraction of a percent.

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  • ComradePedro@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Least racist lemm.ee post 🤡

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