After more than four hours of deliberation, the Supreme Court has ruled on the side of the NSW Police Force, declaring that tomorrow’s planned Black Lives Matter march in Sydney will be considered illegal. The presiding judge, Justice Fagan, cited concerns over COVID-19, despite assurances from the organisers of the march that safety measures would be set in place.
Despite the ruling, protesters, headed by Aboriginal families, vowed that the march would go ahead. Present outside today’s hearing was Leetona Dungay, mother of David Dungay Jnr who was killed by suffocation at Long Bay Gaol by prison officers in 2015. His last words were “I can’t breathe”.
432 Aboriginal people have died in custody since the 1991 report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down.
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