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'Something is rotten in the state of Queensland' : Comments
By John Tomlinson, published 31/10/2008Queensland has had a long history of police killings of Aborigines: we need a further Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody.
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We'll never know if he did do it but he certainly had the opportunity and motive, and what's more, the opportunity to cover it up. extreme arrogance and a closed-ranks culture are part and parcel of what the police do. 'an all white jury' was encouraged to indulge in all the myths and stereotypes of aboriginal people as drunken, lying, violent deviants who need to be locked up for their own good by a lone white police officer who was just trying to bring peace and order to the otherwise out-of-control world of Palm Island.
wake up, people. this is townsville, where many white people refer to aborigines as 'parkies' and openly admit to being racist. that's reality, not some fantasy about 'due process' and 'impartiality' and the white sheriff bringing justice and the rule of law to the savages.
What a load of codswallop about police being brave and doing a tough job. they were dropped into the fray on Palm Island for the purposes of suppressing local resistance to police brutality. they were obviously arrogant and stupid enough to think they were doing the 'right thing'. if these people really have PTSD and all that, they need counselling, not a tin-foil star for their chest.