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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. ....

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