Indigenous children routinely subjected to racist slurs and excessive force, including use of stun guns, Yoorrook Justice Commission told
First Nations children are routinely strip-searched by police and it amounts to “state-sanctioned violence”, a defence lawyer has told Victoria’s Indigenous truth-telling commission.that the constant mistreatment of Aboriginal children by Victoria police was rooted in racism.
Theocharous, the principal solicitor at Kurnai Legal, said Indigenous children were routinely subjected to racist slurs, excessive force and over-policing, including unnecessary use of stun guns.“It just occurs constantly and all the time. I know from speaking to other lawyers and talking about their experiences with their clients … they find it really confronting when we speak about the experiences our First Nations clients have with police.
Nerita Waight, the chief executive of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, told the inquiry that racism within Victoria police was present across the institution and in the “actions of individual officers”.
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