'Show respect and listen': scenes from Australia’s first Indigenous-run police station
by Elissa Blake from on (#54B7H)
Amid growing global civil unrest against police brutality and racism, a small station 330km west of Uluru is trying things differently
As protests against police brutality and racism have spread around the world in the wake of the death of George Floyd, two new films demonstrate the extremes of police dealings with Indigenous Australians.
The first, which surfaced earlier this week, is the now notorious mobile phone footage of a violent encounter between a New South Wales police constable and an Aboriginal teenager in Surry Hills, Sydney.
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