Good afternoon. An independent investigatormust be appointed to investigate the death of a Warlpiri manin Northern Territory police custody, his family says, and the footage leading up to his death released.
The 24-year-old man with disabilities from Yuendumu died on Tuesday afternoon after police restrained him in an Alice Springs supermarket. A letter sent to the acting NT police commissioner on behalf of the man’s grandfather, Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, also asked police to “immediately cease making public statements or media briefings that speculate on the cause of death or denigrate the character of the deceased”.
The man’s death came just days before the expected coronial inquest findings into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, also from Yuendumu, who wasshot and killedby police officer Zachary Rolfe. The release of the findings is planned for 10 June, but may be delayed because of this latest death.
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