NT police commissioner asks for sympathy for officer filmed threatening detained Aboriginal boys

Commissioner says he won't throw anyone under the bus' after video of 2018 police watch house incident emerges

The Northern Territory's top police officer said he would not throw anyone under the bus" over a video that showed a police officer threatening to belt" Aboriginal teenagers and telling them: I am in the mood to fucking lose my job tonight."

The footage, published by the ABC following a freedom of information request, is taken from a CCTV camera inside an Alice Springs police watch house in 2018. It shows police processing five Aboriginal teenagers, aged 12 to 16, who had been arrested for allegedly driving a stolen car.