Article 5R1Y0 ‘It hurts and it’s wrong’: family of Aboriginal woman shot dead by WA police officer speak out after acquittal

‘It hurts and it’s wrong’: family of Aboriginal woman shot dead by WA police officer speak out after acquittal

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Ben Doherty with Australian Associated Press
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Supporters of JC say 30 years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission there is still no equality'

The family of a Geraldton woman shot dead by a Western Australian police officer has said there is no equality" and no justice" for Aboriginal people after the constable was acquitted of her murder on Friday.

In terms of Aboriginal people, we don't get no fairness, there's no equality and this is evidence with what's happened here," Bernadette Clarke, the sister of the victim, known as JC for cultural reasons, said on the steps outside Perth's district court.

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