DAVID DUNGAY, 'SYMBOL OF BLACK LIVES MATTER': THE FACTS
Tuesday’s Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney was stopped by police before it started, yet still worked its poison. The tension about whether it would go ahead gave its organisers a big media platform to make David Dungay "a symbol of the Australian Black Lives Matter movement” after he was killed for "eating biscuits". Now for the facts...
Tuesday’s Black Lives Matter protest in Sydney was stopped by police before it started, yet still worked its poison.
That’s because it was a cliffhanger story for weeks — will it go ahead in this pandemic? — and the media gave its organisers a huge platform.
Boy, did they use it to spread their toxic story that police and prison guards were racists, murdering Aborigines who shouldn’t even be in jail.
The main organiser, Paddy Gibson, appeared on Channel 10’s The Project this week to claim — unchallenged — that we “continue to incarcerate 10-year-old Aboriginal children” and “torture” them.
He went on: “Particularly in the case of David Dungay … Charge the guards that killed David Dungay Jr!”
Dungay’s name is now everywhere in the media. As The Guardian Australia said, “Dungay’s 2015 death in custody has become a symbol of the Australian Black Lives Matter movement” because this poor “26-year-old Dunghutti man died after five guards rushed his cell to stop him eating biscuits”.