@*kazumi* wrote:
@chameleon54 wrote:
@*kazumi* wrote:
It is not about his crime; the point is that NOBODY should be killed by police or prison guard.
"The Dunghutti man from Kempsey died in Sydneyโs Long Bay jail on 29 December 2015 after guards rushed his cell to stop him eating biscuits, dragged him to another cell, then held him face down and had him injected with a sedative. Before he died he said 12 times that he could not breathe."
Why not let police shoot any suspect on the street, like they do in Philippines; saves time and money?
You dont have to go to the Phillippines to see this. It happened in Australia just before the first BLM rallies. .........Oh hang on that was a person with mental health issues Australian police shot dead. His life doesnt matter to most of the people who post here. He wasnt from a Politically Correct minority was he ?
That is not true, the problem is that it is disproportionally black people in the USA and the 1st nation people here who are killed in custody. There is no epidemic of European background people being murdered, or white kids being jailed for stealing packet of biscuits. And the consequences for the killer cops/guards are also different.
BUT on the whole the protests are against police brutality against everybody. And of course, there are times when killing somebody is wholly justified; just like the young man who was stabbing an older woman in the park, and continued stabbing her as the police approached. I think she is still in the hospital fighting for her life. If he was not killed at that precise moment, her condition would no doubt be worse with every additional stab wound.
You should do a little research before making these sorts of posts. While America certainly has its issues, these cant automatically be transposed to Australia.
Your statement was true ( in Australia ) up until the mid 1990,s when more indigenous Australians ( per 1000 indigenous prison inmates ) died in custody than non indigenous Australians by a factor of around 1.3.
Since the mid 1990,s Australia's Correctional facilities have taken extensive steps to address this problem and have been so successful that indigenous Australians are now around 20% less likely than non indigenous Australians to die in prison.
The real problem is that indigenous Australians are simply at much higher risk of ending up in prison. The reasons for this are extremely complex and include lower educational outcomes, higher levels of alcohol and substance abuse than the general population ( caused by issues of social exclusion, chronic unemployment etc. ) , housing and employment instability, socially entrenched domestic violence etc.
What the PC and BLM crowd don't seem to understand is that by endorsing divisionist politics and constantly harping back to the mistakes of colonisation etc. they are actually increasing the levels of anger and hurt felt by indigenous Australians rather than finding common ground, encouraging acceptance of past mistakes promoting social inclusion and working towards a better future.
The nett result is that by encouraging division and anger, the BLM / PC supporters are actually increasing the risk of indigenous Australians falling foul of the law and ending up in prison. And with that comes the inherent risk that all prisoners ( black or white ) face of Death in Custody.
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