Queensland police service apologises for ‘sickening’ racist comments in leaked audio recordings

Deputy commissioner Mark Wheeler says comments made at a Brisbane watch house have no place in society'

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The Queensland police officer in charge of the state's watch houses has publicly apologised for the sickening and disturbing" remarks by officers in leaked audio recordings published by Guardian Australia.

The recordings, published Sunday, include officers at the Brisbane city watch house joking about beating and burying black people, complaining you've got to be embarrassed about being white" and raising fears that Australia will be fucking taken over".

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