Protesters have gathered in major cities across Australia demanding justice over minority deaths in police custody in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Protesters have gathered in major cities across Australia demanding justice over minority deaths in police custody in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.
About 10,000 people gathered in central Sydney Saturday after a court overturned a previous injunction that ruled any protest there illegal because of social distancing restrictions. Similar demonstrations went ahead in Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide, with protesters waving banners and chanting « black lives matter. »
The rallies were organized by indigenous rights groups — among others — under the banner « Stop Black Deaths in Custody. »
Jeremy,27, who didn’t reveal his surname, attended the march in Sydney. « To know that I stand on the shoulders of black, queer people before me who have enabled me to live the life I lead, I had to ask myself if I was going to be the ancestor that people after me needed me to be, » he told CNN.
« Change needs to happen… I want to see it at its grass-roots level, see it in the education system, with people in power. What I want to see is that we haven’t come this far for everything that’s come before us to mean nothing.
