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Lyndal Rowlands

INSANE: Aboriginal community shaken by second death in australian police custody | Rare Historical Photos

Protesters demand justice for 19-year-old Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot dead by police in 2019, six years before Kumanjayi White died in police custody [File: Kelly Barnes/EPA-EFE]

The family of Kumanjayi White are asking for CCTV footage and an independent investigation a week after the 24-year-old died in police custody at a supermarket in Alice Springs, Central Australia.

“The young Warlpiri man who died in police custody in Coles [supermarket] in Alice Springs on Tuesday May 27 is my Jaja [grandson],” White’s grandfather, Warlpiri leader Ned Hargraves, said in a statement on Tuesday.

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