CW: Police violence
Police shot and killed an Indigenous man in Sydney today. This, just two days after another Indigenous man died in a prison located three hours outside of Sydney.
Indigenous peoples make up less than 5% of the Australian population.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/m…
Police shot and killed an Indigenous man in Sydney today. This, just two days after another Indigenous man died in a prison located three hours outside of Sydney.
Indigenous peoples make up less than 5% of the Australian population.
smh.com.au/national/nsw/m…
Aboriginal people die in custody at a rate of 0.61 per 100,000 people. More than 55% of these people were in police custody or being pursued by police. A small number were remanded pre-trial (Australia does not have cash bail).
theguardian.com/australia-news…
theguardian.com/australia-news…
In the US, Black people die in *police* custody at a rate of 0.60 per 100,000 people.
This does not include people who die in jail or prison, so the rate would be higher if those numbers were included.
I will look for the total figure.
journalistsresource.org/politics-and-g…
This does not include people who die in jail or prison, so the rate would be higher if those numbers were included.
I will look for the total figure.
journalistsresource.org/politics-and-g…
Also as a @nytimes article showed more than one half of police killings are mislabeled. So the data on all of this is very imprecise. nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/…
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