Police in Canberra allegedly pulled their guns on a 17-year-old Indigenous boy who they mistook for a suspect in an aggravated burglary, prompting accusations of “institutional racism” and “racial profiling”.
The boy’s family allege he was travelling on a bus on when it was stopped by police officers looking for a suspect accused of robbing a shop with a knife.
Thomas Emerson, an independent MLA in the ACT parliament, said police “had a difficult job to do, but apprehending an innocent Aboriginal child at gunpoint is not part of that job”.
“This is exactly what institutional racism looks like, and we have to be willing to call it out,” Emerson said.
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