NSW Police are ordered to apologise for racially vilifying Palestinians and Arabs during a 2017 counter-terror training video showing officers were wearing Middle Eastern headdresses.
During the exercise, mock hostages were forced to stand with their hands on the window of a train, holding up an Islamic State flag.
The officer who developed the exercise, Chief Inspector Colin Green, told the tribunal the use of headscarves was appropriate because officers portraying armed offenders were meant to simulate members of ISIS.The tribunal found the scarves were widely associated with Palestinians and Arabic people who were not members of ISIS.
It gave the example of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who worn a keffiyah for many years while in public office. "In the context of the whole exercise … the keffiyahs worn by the 'offenders' had the capacity to encourage the ordinary member of the public … to consider that Palestinians and/or Arabs were to be feared, despised, hated, and/or held in serious contempt as possibly or probably being terrorists," the tribunal found.
It found the police had no intention to vilify any racial group during the training exercise, but it also found that there did not need to be any intent for racial vilification to occur.
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