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Print text only Cancel Mililma May was not even born when a royal commission was investigating high Aboriginal incarceration rates and deaths in custody. But she does recall being five years old and ducking down in her family s car with her cousins when they passed a police station. Because we were scared of the police, Ms May said. My cousins and I, in that moment we had no reason to be scared that we d done anything wrong and yet we still ducked and hid. Ms May, a Larrakia Tiwi woman, said that feeling of smallness was common for Aboriginal people when interacting with police.