Mr Riley was mentally unwell and his family says he waited for hours to see a doctor. He never did, instead dying after he was tasered by police 10 times in less than two minutes.
Calls for Ken Wyatt to pressure the states to better prevent Aboriginal deaths in custody
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Ken Wyatt s family has been directly touched by deaths in custody.
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The most powerful Indigenous politician in the country is coming under increasing pressure to lead the response to deaths in custody, an issue that is personal for him.
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As of 2018, about a third of the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody s recommendations had not been fully implemented
In 1991, the incarceration rate for Indigenous Australians was 14 per cent, now it is nearly 30 per cent.
Advocacy groups want the federal government to pressure states and territories to cut deaths in custody
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According to
Guardian Australia, a cross-party New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal incarceration has unanimously proposed that the state’s police watchdog, the Law Enforcement and Conduct Commission, investigate deaths in custody to stop “police investigating police”.
The inquiry was called during 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests and included Liberal, Labor, Greens, Nationals, and One Nation committee members. They have made 39 recommendations including for the LECC to appoint a senior Indigenous statutory officer to provide judicial and cultural expertise in investigating Aboriginal custodial deaths; raising the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old; and reforming the Summary Offences Act to exclude “obscene language” as grounds for arrest.
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