MP calls for AFP to 'take over' Alice Springs death in custody probe

Police, state close ranks over Kumanjayi White’s death in custody

Very little is known about the circumstances of young Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi White’s, death in custody because the police and state have closed ranks. Paul Gregoire reports on the push-back against this criminal pattern.

Central Land Council calls for NT gov to be defunded after Alice Springs death in custody

Black Lives Matter rallies are being organised around the country with advocates calling for an end to internal police investigations.

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.

Calls persist for external probe into death in custody

If a territory government fails to set up an external probe into the latest death in custody its federal funding should be cut, an Aboriginal authority says.

Call for death-in-custody officers to be stood down

Nationwide rallies are demanding justice for a young Aboriginal man who died in custody, with his family demanding the police officers involved be…

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 …