A 48-year-old man has accused Queensland police of racial profiling after he was arrested while getting petrol, leaving him with a fractured forearm.
It all happened so fast. The sudden yelling, the blur of blue uniforms, the feeling of gravel rubbing against his cheek.How Changamire Chipangamazano, not his real name, ended up on the ground with two officers standing over him was a mystery — but he remembers the agonising pain.Mr Chipangamazano, who is of African descent, had pulled into a petrol station to fill up his sedan with fuel on the way back from his brother's house.
Within a matter of moments, he was face down on the ground — his arm bent to the point of breaking — so that the officers could handcuff him."I was telling him, 'You've broken my arm, give me some help'."Despite this, he said the officers didn't initially explain to him what he was alleged to have done wrong and continued to use force.
"I gave you directions to move ... so we could talk to you about driving without your seatbelt," the officer said.During the heated exchange, Mr Chipangamazano replied: "I told you I was parking." The Queensland African Communities Council said the level of force used in Mr Chipangamazano's arrest was unacceptable.
He said the Ipswich incident had the potential to erode trust between police and African Australians."When people watch footage like that, young people, you start to question your confidence in law enforcement," Mr Bol said. But Mr Bol said cultural training only went so far, and that Queensland police needed to take responsibility.
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