Indigenous advocates call for First Nations people to educate themselves, and their children, on their legal rights when dealing with police. They say Australians see through 'rose-coloured glasses' if they believe the Black Lives Matter movement is irrelevant here.
10 days ago after a police officer arresting him knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes in the US city of Minneapolis.
"The video of George Floyd is so atrocious that I can't bear to watch it," said the 49-year-old Kurnai woman from Gippsland. More than 430 Indigenous people have died in police custody in Australia since the Royal Commission released its findings in 1991.without the disbelief and outrageDriven to address the issue, Ms Heritage-Gorrie became a police officer in 2002, and she has been writing a book about her experiences.She agreed with Ms Murphy that education was needed in Indigenous communities to improve their knowledge of their legal rights and reduce conflict with the authorities.
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