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Lloyd Jones

HISTORICAL FACTS: Call for independent probes into deaths in custody - Caught on Camera

The death of Kumanjayi White in police custody has sparked anger and protests. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A decision not to charge two police officers over the death of a disabled Aboriginal man they forcibly restrained has revived calls for deaths in custody to be independently investigated

Kumanjayi White, 24, died in Alice Springs in May 2025 after the plain-clothes officers held him down in a supermarket, sparking national outrage and rallies calling for an independent investigation.

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