Uncle of woman who died in WA police custody says the decision reveals fears ‘that the entire world will see racist Australia for what it truly is’Footage of Ms Dhu being dropped by a police officer and later carried out of her cell will not be released despite her family’s wishes,because it could retraumatise” them at a later date, the West Australian coroner has ruled.
Speaking on the final day of the inquest into the death in custody of the 22-year-used Yamatji woman in Perth on Thursday, and state coroner Ros Fogliani said that despite a submission from lawyers for Dhu’s family that they did not oppose the release of footage and did not view it as disrespectful to her memory,she had ruled against it because “once the images are released and provided to the media I cannot control their future dissemination”.
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Source: theguardian.com