I’m speaking with Rick Hind at 9:30am EST on examples of civilians investigating police deaths in custody from Northern Ireland and Ontario, Canada.

Lauren Stefanou, the acting principal legal officer with the Aboriginal Legal Service in NSW, says FPOs “not only grant police sweeping powers, they give police a blank cheque to surveil, stop, search, arrest and charge Aboriginal children and adults”.

1. Disarm the police - police in the UK don't routinely carry guns. 2. We need an Independent Investigation. The police chief has already said the police were justified. 3. We need housing and community health metal health not police.

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This is one of the most extreme cases of racial profiling by Victoria Police I have seen. Hash Tayeh is simultaneously a victim of under-policing and over-policing (singled out for engaging in constitutionally protected political speech).

RT @HashTayeh: I am beyond furious at the sheer hypocrisy. So many of you have sent me this disgusting image of a man standing on the steps….

RT @HashTayeh: This morning, I received a vile, hate-filled email—disgusting beyond words. The level of racism and bigotry in it is absolut….

RT @jewishcouncilAU: Audience members at our Melbourne Jewish community event with Dr Gabor Maté explain why they support the Jewish Counci….

RT @DavidPocock: This has to be the final straw. Julie Tongs has been calling for an inquiry into AMC for a long time & I support her call….

Over the last few years, we have witnessed the expansion of police powers and the encroachment on our rights to peaceful protest, with no corresponding measures to monitor or hold police to account when things go wrong. via @rightnowinc.

RT @hierobadge: Last night I drew a map of places of worship in and around Melbourne’s CBD w/ 150m exclusion zones around them. It shows th….

RT @RAPLV: RAP is proud to announce the launch of our latest law reform report: "Unreasonable Grounds: Reforming Victoria Police’s stop and….

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RT @caitoz: An Australian sports journalist was just fired for retweeting factual information about Israel's genocidal atrocities in Gaza.….

RT @jordana_s_: grateful to @OverlandJournal for publishing this piece from a group of us who presented at, and attended, Carumba Institute….

RT @SenatorThorpe: Eighteen people to a cell, people sleeping on concrete floors next to toilets, lights left on 24/7, lack of safe drinkin….

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