Exclusive: Guardian Australia obtained the full, unpublished report, more than a year after it was tabled, via a Right to Information application
A government-commissioned report contained allegations of police brutality and raised concerns that ‘police actions could lead to escalation of behaviour in a person rather than de-escalation’.A government-commissioned report contained allegations of police brutality and raised concerns that ‘police actions could lead to escalation of behaviour in a person rather than de-escalation’.
Guardian Australia obtained the full, unpublished report, more than a year after it was tabled, via a Right to Information application. JA, a man with a cognitive and psychosocial disability, said he was arrested in a physical altercation with police. He said he was “unregulated” at the time, and that police had “slammed” him against a wall and into the ground.He was taken to the watch house and stripped of his clothing, as he said the police thought he was suicidal.
“That’s why they didn’t charge me. They just let me go … If he charged me, I would’ve told the judge.”
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