On 9 November 2019 the Yuendumu community was devastated when Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe shot and killed 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker. Rolfe went to trial earlier this year and was acquitted by an all-white jury. The case brought to light many fundamental aspects of colonial policing such as Rolfe […]
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By Madden Gilhooly “Capitalism doesn’t exist without cops because cops are the violence workers that fabricate and maintain relations of private property that are fundamental to capitalism.” (David Correia and Tyler Wall, 2018, from ‘Police: A field guide’) Fast forward to May 25 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where unarmed Black […]
Since the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, there has been renewed discussion about police brutality around the world. Here in Australia, much of that conversation and activism has rightly focused on the abysmal record of racist policing and deaths in custody inflicted upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait […]
This article re-published with permission. Originally published 13 December 2017 at Kieran’s Review. The front page of Sunday’s Herald Sun bore a message from on high for Victoria’s political caste, the Police Association have issued their ‘pre-election wish list’. There is an election next year, and support or opposition from […]