Retired officers say a lack of accountability within the Queensland Police Service has allowed racism to fester
They also captured an officer joking to his colleague that a female Indigenous detainee “won’t give you a fucking blowjob here”.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “At the tail end of the commission of inquiry, Katarina Carroll’s comments were in relation to stamping racism out. “The first thing that came to my mind [after listening to the recordings] was no wonder why the community don’t have any faith in policing. Police are supposed to protect and police the community but they are struggling to even police themselves,” she said.
“I could see that it bothered her but I didn’t have the strength at that time to stand up and say anything.”
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