TJ HICKEY RALLY

TJ died 5 years ago. His bike was rammed by a Redfern police vehicle, driven by then, constable Michael Hollingsworth. As a result, he was impaled in the metal spiked fence.
Proper medical practices were not followed by the police and he died in hospital the next day. The cover up started immediately, every one was involved, from the Premier to the Commissioner. Also the Coroner, in the enquiry, blocked some witnesses, didn’t allowed proper legal representation to TJ’s family, and stopped some crucial evidence to be presented. The police were exonerated, and the guilty ones were, instead, those who showed their anger and outrage to the murder of TJ.

On November 2004 another Death in Custody happened in Palm Island. An aboriginal man, Mulrunji, was arrested by Snr Sgt Christopher Hurley. In the Police Station, Hurley assaulted Mulrunji, so badly, that the aboriginal man died shortly after on the cell floor. In this case, something went wrong for government and police. The Palm Island people and the solidarity of Brisbane and all Queensland aboriginal people first and later from all around Australia demanded JUSTICE.

Two coronial enquiries, government and police pressure, but the cover up failed. The acting State Coroner recommended that Hurley faced court on charges of killing Mulrunji. The obscure forces of injustice kept working. The DPP found that Hurley had no case to answer, and again the aboriginal people from Queensland and all around the nation came out demanding justice. A new enquiry recommended the charges to Hurley to be reinstated. But still, when the trial was held, the “White Justice” was at work and Hurley was acquitted. Later a judge cleared Hurley of any wrongdoing.

As in the TJ’s case, the only found guilty were those who resisted this injustice. One of them, Lex Wottom became a sample of resistance, for aboriginal a non aboriginal people, refusing to accept the guilty charge. His trial, hold last year, found him guilty. Still Lex is struggling for justice, for himself and the Palm Island people.
Now, on 10th of January, in Alice Springs, another aboriginal man has died in police custody. After being violently arrested by police, he was found dead in his jail. The cover up called “police investigation”, started soon. Don’t hold your breath.

Too many koori kids are dying at the hands of the ‘law’

Whose Son, Brother, Sister, Cousin, Uncle, Aunt will die this year
at the hands of the police?

Protest to put a stop to the deaths and get true justice for Koori people

Support all the actions demanding that the Rudd government Stop the NT intervention and all attacks on aboriginal People

JUSTICE FOR TJ.