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We too must take the law's knee off the Aboriginal throat

Jack Waterford
Updated April 24 2021 - 11:55am, first published April 23 2021 - 12:00pm
Protests marked 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report. Picture: Getty Images
Protests marked 30 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody handed down its final report. Picture: Getty Images

From one perspective, one could see the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd as a triumph of the American justice system - a proof, somehow, that American police are accountable to the law, that bad police practice, having its roots in racism, will be found out, and that the jury system will get things right.

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Jack Waterford

Jack Waterford is a former editor of The Canberra Times.

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