MP calls for AFP to 'take over' Alice Springs death in custody probe
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MP calls for AFP to 'take over' Alice Springs death in custody probe
Member for Lingiari Marion Scrymgour has called for the Australian Federal Police to step in and "take over" a criminal investigation into the death in custody of Kumanjayi White in Alice Springs last week.
Call for federal police to examine death in custody
Federal police should take over the investigation into the death in custody of a young Aboriginal man as a “step towards healing and justice”, an Indigenous MP says. Northern Territory MP Marion Scrymgour said a criminal investigation was a job “only police can undertake” but it did not have to be conducted by NT detectives when federal police could step in. Her call comes amid growing pressure for an independent investigation into the death of …
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