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Riot in Redfern over death in custody
by Sting	2004-02-16 10:42 AM +0800
The death of a three-year-old girl during a pursuit on Windsor Road at McGraths Hill in January 2004, is another example of police pursuits.
The reported claim that 50 police were injured during rioting in Redfern over a death in custody is nothing more than a counter claim required to balance the argument that Thomas Hickey wasn't chased to his death by police. The counter claim makes it look good for police opposed to addressing serious procedural problems within the NSW Police "Force". The death of a three-year-old girl during a pursuit on Windsor Road at McGraths Hill in January 2004, is another example of police pursuits. The Staysafe committee released a report into police pursuits in November 1994. But The New South Wales Opposition's police spokesman, Peter Debnam, said, "Many recommendations were yet to be implemented." Fatal accident prompts police pursuit probe http://www.abc.net.au/news/australia/nsw/200401/s1026588.htm Four people were taken into custody after anger erupted at the death of 17-year-old Aborigine Thomas Hickey, who was impaled through the neck on a fence on Saturday morning. Mr Waites says the riot began after the death of Mr Hickey, who was impaled on a fence in the area on Saturday. "The misinformation was that they were under the belief that the police were actually involved in a pursuit where an Aboriginal youth was killed and that wasn't true," he said. But why are police so quick to claim misinformation yet there has been no enquiry. Usually police won't say anything when there appears to have been a death in custody why the change? Obviously there are witnesses who have said that police chased the youngster to his death. Waites says officers who were on patrol drove past the boy, who was riding his bicycle in the opposite direction. "They continued on their patrol," he said. "They weren't aware that after he'd passed them, he accelerated on his pushbike and gone around a corner and lost control of it. "It wasn't till they came around the block again and people flagged them down and told them what happened [that they knew], so the suggestion that police have in some way been the cause of the death is fairly questionable." But not if you're a witness to the police chase! The teenager's mother, Gail Hickey, yesterday said police caused her son's death. "I don't believe the police, I don't care what they say, I don't believe them," she said. "They did chase him at that time. "I got a witness to all that. He seen everything that happened. He told me he seen my son riding the bike real fast, next minute he seen cop cars coming, chasing my son to the building there, where it happened." Local resident Donna says people are grieving. "It all started over the coppers chasing a young boy," she said. "It happened yesterday afternoon or last night and it's just that everybody has gone off because they believe the coppers are involved in doing away with the young fellow." Donna says people are angry because they believe police are responsible for the teenager's death. "He was murdered," she said. "We've been down to look at the spot and everything and there's no sign, they cleaned it up that quick." Redfern Aboriginal elder Lyall Munro says police harass local young people on a daily basis and have them running scared. "The community here is very much aware of what happened," Mr Munro said. "This type of thing is going to happen and our young people are going to die in this way whilst ever the police are allowed to get away with it." Mr Munro says relations with police are at an all-time low. "Community programs that we had going here ... all fell through because Aboriginal people saw what the street police done immediately after the meetings," Mr Munro said. The president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, Ray Jackson, says police could have managed the situation better. He is a friend of the Hickey family and says a police car was driving in a street where the teenager's mother was grieving on Sunday afternoon. "One report that I got was the police were smiling and sniggering and all this sort of thing and it was common knowledge that there was going to be a problem as soon as it got dark and that's exactly what's happened," Mr Jackson said.

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by anonymous	2004-02-17 5:27 AM +0800
I am writting from Spain. All my solidarity from here. Shut down murderers! Link here
wow
by ozzy	2004-02-17 9:39 AM +0800
its amazing to see these scenes here in Australia... Link here
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by anonymous	2004-02-17 1:59 PM +0800
FUCK THE POLICE!! Greez from $witzerland.... Link here
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by anonymous	2004-02-17 6:07 PM +0800
Solidarety also from Switzerland! Never give up! Link here
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by No Justice, No Peace	2004-02-17 6:16 PM +0800
Soledarity from Germany Link here
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by anonymous	2004-02-17 8:29 PM +0800
Solidarity from Austria! Fight the police!!!!!! Link here
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by anonymous	2004-02-18 6:34 AM +0800
Peace from overall!! Link here
let's get free
by anarchist	2004-02-18 3:56 PM +0800
solidarity from switzerland!!! fight the police, create anarchy!!! Link here
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