Strip-searching of First Nations children by Victoria police ‘state-sanctioned violence’, inquiry hears

Indigenous children routinely subjected to racist slurs and excessive force, including use of stun guns, Yoorrook Justice Commission told

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First Nations children are routinely strip-searched by police and it amounts to state-sanctioned violence", a defence lawyer has told Victoria's Indigenous truth-telling commission.

Tessa Theocharous told the Yoorrrook Justice Commission that the constant mistreatment of Aboriginal children by Victoria police was rooted in racism.

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