Australians Are Pissed After An Aussie Reporter's "Ignorant" Comments At The US Black Lives Matter Protests
But Australians were quick to point out that, in reality, we have a long, tragic and ongoing history of police violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. Just last year, The Guardian published a database showing more than 400 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the end of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody in 1991. The hashtag #AboriginalLivesMatter soon began trending on Twitter, with people calling out our country's erasure of the history of violence against Blak Australians. Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliawilling/aussie-reporter-ignores-australian-history-of-violence