PERTH - Thousands of protestors rallied for racial equality in cities across Australia on Saturday despite official warnings the demonstrations could undermine the country's success in suppressing the
PERTH - Thousands of protestors rallied for racial equality in cities across Australia on Saturday despite official warnings the demonstrations could undermine the country's success in suppressing the coronavirus.
"We are here to support our future as indigenous people and to walk against the injustices of... what happens to our people, with over 400 black deaths in custody," one unidentified protestor told public broadcaster ABC at the Darwin march. It was the second straight weekend of large protests in Australia, initially organized in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States following the killing by a white policeman of African-American George Floyd.
No prosecutions have been brought over the deaths, despite dozens of investigations, inquests and in some cases video evidence of abuse.
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