Around 200 people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Gadigal country to bring further attention to Aboriginal deaths in custody and to remind the public that Blak lives still matter.
Amongst the crowd in attendance, was the family of Kamilaroi-Dunghutti man, Ricky ‘Dougie’ Hampson/Chatfield, who died shortly after being discharged from Dubbo Hospital in 2021. Dougie’s family claims that the hospital failed to properly diagnose and treat a duodenal ulcer, due to the fact that he was Aboriginal. A coronial inquest into his death will be conducted in February next year.
Ricky ‘Dougie’ Hampson/Chatfield is one of more than 500 Aboriginal people who have died in custody since the report of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody was handed down in 1991.
After speeches at Town Hall, the crowd marched through the CBD to the Supreme Court on Phillip Street.
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