Photographs from yesterday’s protest rally at Sydney Town Hall, demanding an end to armed police in Aboriginal communities and an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody.
Speakers included family members from several Aboriginal people who have died in police custody - Mark Mason Snr, David Dungay Jnr. and Kumanjayi Walker.
Audrey Napanangka Williams, a Warlpiri woman and relative of 19-year old Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot and killed by Constable Zachary Rolfe in 2019 in Yuendumu, travelled all the way from the Northern Territory to speak. She demanded that police no longer carry guns in her community, after an all white jury found Rolfe not guilty of murder. A total of sixteen demands were made, all of which can be found at www.karrinjarimuwajarri.org
Nearly 500 Aboriginal people have died in police custody since the report from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991.
The protestors marched to the Supreme Court on Macquarie Street where further speeches were given.
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