About two thousand people filled Perth’s CBD on Monday evening for the first of several Black Lives Matter protests planned in Australia this week.
“I was not expecting this. This support, it humbles me. It allows me to know that the world is waking up,” she said.The demonstrators also drew attention to indigenous deaths in custody in Australia.The protest is one of many across the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US A fire burned on the stage of the demonstration, which was lead by Aboriginal Elders and activists.
The RCDIAC made 339 recommendations to reduce the number of Indigenous Australians dying in police and prison custody, but many of those recommendations have not been implemented.
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