'We are seeing there the lived experience of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.' 9News
on Monday, and said "it shouldn't take an American civil war for us to talk about this" after the video of his arrest went viral.
The teenager had allegedly told a male police officer "I'll crack you in the f------ jaw, bro" before he was thrown to the ground. "Just look at the video and look at the George Floyd video and tell me how they're different," he said.George Floyd died after he was pinned down by an officer who knelt on his neck for eight minutes.
"We need to have a moment in this country where we stop pretending everything is OK and that racism doesn't exist because it does."It is Reconciliation Week. Instead of seeing pictures of 250,000 people walking across the Harbour Bridge in unity, we are seeing a police officer belt up a young kid."
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