Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Snap Action at 107 Redfern, 23 Jan 2019 Last night I attended a 'Snap action Solidarity fundraiser' organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association ( ISJA Sydney ) and Fighting In Resistance Equally ( FIRE ). ISJA meets every Wednesday at Redfern Community Centre David Dungay The "Snap Action" was to raise money for the family of David Dungay who died in custody at Long Bay Prison at Malabar in Sydney. The NSW Coroners investigation into Dungay's death was adjourned last July and will resume on Wednesday 6 March 2018 . "Mr Dungay was just weeks away from release, when he died during a cell transfer at Long Bay jail hospital in December 2015. He was held down by five prison officers after he was told to stop eating a packet of biscuits. The court was played footage showing Mr Dungay transferred to the second cell while handcuffed and then injected with the sedative midazolam. Mr Dungay said 12 times that he couldn’t breathe." - Fa...