Cory Debono, Tura Tangimetu: Claymore rap video riots
Two members of an out-of-control street riot, which saw young men brandish machetes and baseball bats for a rap video, have admitted to attacking police officers.
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Two members of an out-of-control street riot, which saw young men brandish machetes and baseball bats for a rap video, have admitted to attacking police officers.
Cory Debono, 22, of Harrington Park and Tura Tangimetu, 19, of Airds both pleaded guilty to rioting on the streets of Claymore, in Sydney’s southwest on September 14. Tangimetu also pleaded guilty to throwing a missile at police officers.
The duo were part of a group of 50 young men which had gathered to film a rap video for ‘Official 046’. When police arrived at Claymore shops about 3.30pm, members of the gang were seen swinging baseball bats, standing on top of cars with Tangimetu admitting to being on the roof of the Dobell Rd shops
Police spoke to members of the group which soon turned hostile with glass bottles flung at police, before the young men left the area.
A couple of hours later, the now bigger gathering of young men returned to the scene with members again flinging bottles at police, trying to steal police equipment and assaulting officers trying to arrest a member.
The agreed facts say Debono and other members of the group, with Tangimetu watching on, “mimicked” attacking police by “bouncing on their feet in a boxing style, smashing their chest with their fists and yelling”.
After a flare was lit in the chaos, the Tangimetu and Debono retreated behind the smoke and threw glass bottles – four and one respectively – in the direction of police, before leaving the riot.
Police prosecutor Leonard Kerr told the court more people are expected to appear before the court in relation to the riot.
Both men will be sentenced in Campbelltown Local Court in May.