Submitted 8 months ago by naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to news@aussie.zone
Alternative title: NSW cops murder a kid because he ran home when 4 people in plain clothes pile out of a car and accost him. For wearing a hoodie.
If an officer’s mental health condition’ is so severe that they can’t testify in court, MAYBE THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE A FUCKING GUN.
This is horrific. There’s no excuse for those cops ‘not knowing’ when they can retain someone and when they are allowed to walk on…that’s literally their job. So sad.
Disguised “proactive” stop and search shit is secret police stuff.
This is an entirely predictable outcome of the policy. It is social murder.
If you heard about this happening in North Korea, China, Russia etc you would go “well duh, this is why authoritarian policing is unacceptable”. It is intolerable that we permit this, he was a child and he was gunned down with all the cruelty of a cartel hit squad running home for safety.
America and by extension other parts of the world are too busy with culture war shit to notice the real war going on.
And people wonder why anyone with half a brain keeps say the world is sliding into a Conservative shitehole.
I was amazed to find this happened in Australia, not the USA. What a shitshow.
nsw pol are complete bastards. Murdered a 90 year old with dementia cause she was armed with a walking frame. Patrol the streets with drug dogs that indicate based on handler not drugs (and even aside: wtf?), strip search tweens illegally, stop music festivals by charging organisers a few hundred thousand to cover the costs of stop and searching random people.
Completely cooked force. My BIL is one of them and I really mean it when I say they’re all fucking cunts.
They have neither the warmth nor depth of a cunt.
No, it’s just the usual Aussies in denial about how shit their country has become. All.they have left is pretending they’re superior to assauge some pretty significant cognitive dissonance. (Any Australians reading this, that means when your heads hurt.)
Yeah same as someone who lives in Australia
I thought this shit would never happen here
Oh. What’s it like being fucking retarded?
Every system is perfectly designed to produce its observed outcomes.
And (at least as far as I can tell), he wasn’t even black aboriginal!
The murderers were suspicious because Brad was “wearing a hoodie on a hot day”? WTF? It was 23 Celsius. That’s 73 Fahrenheit. I’m in a hoodie with the hood up until it’s at least 26 Celsius because I’m fuckin cold!
NSW Police are the most corrupt and incompetent in the nation. But not to fear - NSW politicians and the media will defend them to the ends of the Earth!
I don’t know, this seems on the up and up!
/s just in case…
This article is based on the ABC’s multi-part podcast which is very good:
This was such a harrowing read. In a just world, they’d all be up on manslaughter charges.
I am sure in 2 years they’ll be able to retire with PTSD on workers comp.
Yeah it’s terrifying. A government agency with a monopoly on violence doing something as ruthlessly as if it was a gang hit.
I really appreciate how the abc broke the story.
The Kops and the Klan go Hand in Hand.
brisk@aussie.zone 8 months ago
If we ever want to be able to have a just police force, this sort of thing needs to be considered sufficient evidence of intent to commit a crime. Either you have a body camera on, *or you are a civilian
The whole the article is incredibly damning; an illegal stop, a “proactive policing” policy which can so obviously only ever lead to injustice, violation of the right to walk away, targeting without sufficient evidence, police lying about callouts on the radio
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Yeah like the consequences on one side: idk a kid with a can of spraypaint gets away? maybe worst likely case someone runs off with a handbag of replaceable, material, things.
OTOH a child is murdered under shady circumstances and the killers get off due to lack of evidence.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think you’re seriously understating how scary something like that can be to the victim, to be honest.
grue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, like this part:
WTF? If he had a “serious mental health condition,” why the Hell was he working as a cop?!
zik@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If police don’t have a working body cam there should be an automatic presumption of guilt on their part.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
is body camera footage available to the public? if not, i don’t really see the point.