Répression & dérives sécuritaires La police raciste bat et viole une fille en australie

Ungovernable · 16 Janvier 2011

Résumé rapide de l'article en anglais:
C'était la fête des 21 ans de Tisha, la police est débarquée, l'a trainée en bas de la route et l'a battue, écrasée par terre, détaché ses pentalons et l'ont touchée en la laissant là avec des blessures a ses cuisses et son estomac. La raisons qu'ils ont donné est que la musique était trop forte chez elle. Ils ont aussi battu d'autres personnes qui étaient avec elle.

Les vraies raisons semblent être que tisha est une Autochtone, et les autochtones sont détestés par la police australienne. En plus, elle est membre de la famille d'un garcon de 17 ans qui a été tué par la police en 2004. Depuis ce temps, sa famille subit la répression de la police qui s'acharne sur eux pour avoir défendu le garcon jusqu'au bout et avoir critiqué la police pour son meurtre raciste.

ACAB !!

Campaign builds to defend persecuted Aboriginal family - RACIST POLICE HARASSMENT IN WESTERN SYDNEY

It was early September and Tisha, a well brought-up 21 year-old woman, was getting dressed up. All she wanted was what everyone her age hoped for: a happy and fun 21st birthday party. She was indeed having a pleasant 21st birthday event until a group of thugs dragged her across the road from her own home, crushed her against the ground, tore off the ring on her belly button, lifted up her skirt and unwontedly touched her and left her with bruises on her stomach, arms and legs.

Who would do such a cruel thing? The police in the Western Sydney suburb of Riverstone – that’s who! And their pretext for this cowardly assault on a lightly built woman? The music in Tisha’s party was too loud claimed the police and with this fraudulent excuse they raided the family’s home.

Not only did the police assault Tisha but they did the same to other close relatives who had come to celebrate with her. Moreover, after all this they arrested Tisha, six of her close relatives and a family friend and slapped them with completely trumped up riot charges. Most of those arrested, including Tisha, have been hit up with six or so serious charges including affray and assault of police officers.

So why would Riverstone Police want to pick on one innocent family peacefully going about their own lives? Well, you see, while Tisha and her family may be courteous and good-natured, as far as bigoted police are concerned they have a problem … they are Aboriginal. As the enforcers of an unfair social order that is geared to only serve the big business elite and which was founded on the dispossession of Aboriginal people, Australian police are often hostile to the poor and are notorious for downright brutality towards Aboriginal people. Furthermore, NSW police have a special hatred for Tisha’s family. You see, they are Hickeys, close relatives of TJ Hickey the 17 year-old boy who was killed by racist police in February 2004 after they chased him through the streets of Redfern when he was riding his bicycle. As a result of their defiant refusal to abandon the quest for justice for their beloved TJ, the Hickeys, from Redfern to Riverstone, have faced police harassment over the last six and a half years.

To see just how prejudiced Riverstone cops are against the Aboriginal Hickey family, consider the reason why Tisha’s party had to be held at her home rather than in a local hall. Not long before Tisha’s 21st, her younger sister Jamie turned 18. Her mother, Patricia, had booked the hall for the 18th birthday party at the Riverstone RSL some three months earlier. Yet, when she went to pay up the remainder of the bond money for the party, she was told that the Sergeant at Quakers Hill Police Station had got the hall booking cancelled. When Patricia went to question the Sergeant about this he told her that the hall booking was cancelled because her last name was Hickey and that she had a lot of bad people in her family!

The Police Attack

It was such racist prejudice that drove the police raid on Tisha’s party. Tellingly, when police first harassed the Hickey home in Riverstone on the actual night of Tisha’s 21st, September 4, they not only made spurious accusations about noise but complained that there were people from Redfern at the party (what a crime!) Notably, the one person from Redfern who had actually, along with her immediate family, been at the party was Gail Hickey – the mother of TJ – although she had left by then. The next morning too when the police attacked the family, they preceded this with a threat to not only take the jukebox but to “Get all the Redfern people out.” That the excessive noise claim was merely cover is indicated by the fact that this raid took place not at night … but after 8am in the morning when the party was already over! Moreover, in all the multiple criminal charges placed on family members following the raid, none were actually over the noise.

The large police contingent that morning was calmly met by Tisha’s cousin Jade who insisted that the police produce a warrant before they raid the house. The police responded with what appears to have been an orchestrated provocation. The sole female cop that was present suddenly strode forward right up against the unsuspecting Jade and ironically, as she pushed her face towards his, demanded: “Get out of my face.” When Jade refused to fall for this provocation and, retreating slightly, explained “No one’s in your face,” the cop then shoved him aggressively.

When family members came out to verbally protest against this assault, they were promptly arrested. Among them was Tisha. And while Patricia watched in horror as her daughter was being brutalised, police threatened to taser her every time she moved in to help her child. Watching a male cop lift her daughter’s skirt and put his paws all over her, Patricia tried to pass the police a pair of tights to cover up her daughter. These the police threw back at her.

Meanwhile, the cops violently arrested Jade and banged his head against the cement, causing blood to come out of his head. His mother, Robyn, responded as best she could by splashing the cup of tea she was drinking (a cup of tea that was itself hardly the sign of a rowdy party!) on the shirts of the police. This, incidentally, was the family’s only “physical” response to the police attack and for this “terrifying” act Robyn too was arrested and hit up with serious affray and assault charges. In the end, there were carloads of police and sniffer dogs arresting family members. Among the arrested were Tisha’s 16 year-old brother and a 16 year-old female cousin. As Patricia noted, “they even treated the 16 year-old kids like dogs.”

The Horror Continues

The arrests were hardly the end of the family’s ordeal. In police custody, Robyn, a diabetic, was refused medical assistance to get her dose of insulin. As a result she started to go pale and even so police refused to call an ambulance until some two hours later. Meanwhile, police denied Tisha, a serious asthmatic who normally has to take Ventolin three times a day, assistance after she had a major asthma attack. Later Tisha told her mother, “Mum, I was scared for me and Aunty Robyn. I thought we were going to die.”

Now the arrested people face not only serious charges but ongoing police harassment. Undoubtedly as result of police intervention, Tisha was sacked from her job as a childcare worker the day after the raid. Jade’s partner Jodie, a respected Aboriginal Assistant teacher, has also been forced out of her job.

Tisha was, in fact, so physically bruised and emotionally traumatised by the whole raid that she found it hard to leave her house for weeks. When she has dared to leave the house, she has been stopped by that very same policeman who had his knee in her back while lifting her skirt and touching her. Although she was only a pedestrian, the cop insisted on breathalysing her!

Meanwhile, police continue to find excuses to bang on the family home’s door as they attempt to intimidate those arrested into pleading “guilty.” On a couple of occasions they kicked on the door claiming to be searching for a phantom “man.”

A Chance to Fight for Justice

In some ways what the Hickeys in Riverstone have copped is just a more extreme version of the frequent racist police harassment that many other Aboriginal people experience throughout the country. The key difference is that on this occasion the family cleverly managed to capture on camera some of the police brutality and the utterly bogus nature of the affray and assault charges that those arrested now face. Click on the picture below to see the video footage on YouTube.

This visual evidence is very compelling. Yet in such a political case, linked up as it is with the police killing of TJ Hickey, this evidence will not in itself be enough to win justice for the family through the legal process alone. The Australian courts, like other institutions of the state, are slanted towards the big end of town and are notoriously biased against Aboriginal people.

However, what the video footage and photographs will do is make it easier to mobilise mass support behind the family which is what it will take to win them justice. Already such support is building and there will be a mass rally on the day (scheduled for March 23) the five adults arrested at Tisha’s party go to court at the start of their trial. The demonstration will demand the dropping of all charges against those arrested and more generally will take a stand against racist police attacks against Aboriginal people in the first place and more broadly against police harassment of all non-white and/or working class people as well. The protest will start at 9am outside the Parramatta Court, Corner of George and Marsden Streets, Parramatta.

It is important for all genuine anti-racists to be involved in this campaign. In particular the union movement must take a stand. Fighting against racism is an act of self-defence of our unions. Greedy bosses have always used racism to divide workers and stop us organising to defend our rights. Furthermore, as organisations dedicated to winning justice for working-class people, the very principles of solidarity that underpin our existence are strengthened if we defend others who face injustice.

In a plea written to trade unions and intended for all people who hate racism and injustice, Patricia Hickey wrote:

“My family and I have had a lot of harassment from the police since this thing happened to TJ. We’ve had enough. We want it to stop and stop NOW before another Hickey dies in police custody. Please help us! Enough is enough.”

Let’s build a mass rally of trade unionists, Aboriginal people and all anti-racists on the day that the Hickey family in Riverstone go to trial to demand: Drop all charges against the persecuted Hickey family in Riverstone! Down with all racist police attacks against Aboriginal people!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzrRXSvCHcE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.anarcho-punk.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5852&p=39871#p39871

tatiana · 16 Janvier 2011

au lieu de battre les vrais australiens indigenes, la police devrait plutot lutter contre les criminels musulmans en AUstralie, qui sont tres nefastes!

raven · 16 Janvier 2011

Plus le temps passe, plus je me dis qu'au lieu d'avoir affaire à une jolie russe, on a le droit à un gros troll qui pue...

Tes reflexions à la con, on s'en passera tatiana, si tu continues comme ça, tu prends la porte.

tatiana · 16 Janvier 2011

je ne suis pas spécialement jolie.
tu regarde trop de films X et de clichés sur la prostitution de l'est...

Angus0 · 16 Janvier 2011

tu juge sans connaitre tatiana, il a tenté d'etre sympa pour le coup pas de faire un cliché sexiste sur les femmes russes.
par contre toi ta reflexion sur les "musulmans nocifs" ça me sembla assez choquant.

tatiana · 16 Janvier 2011

je voulais dire simplement que les aborigenes sont arrivés avant les blancs, et les blancs avant les musulmans c'est tout. (et avant les aborigenes il y avait les dingos lol

lis l'histoire de l'Australie...

Angus0 · 16 Janvier 2011

encore une fois je vois pas le rapport.
en quoi est ce que les musulmans sont particulierement criminel?

Ungovernable · 16 Janvier 2011

tatiana a dit: ↑

au lieu de battre les vrais australiens indigenes, la police devrait plutot lutter contre les criminels musulmans en AUstralie, qui sont tres nefastes!

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Ok la c'en est trop, bye bye tatiana la raciste, t'es bannie du forum.

"S'attaquer aux criminels musulmans" ce serait quand même du profilage raciste

raven · 17 Janvier 2011

je ne suis pas spécialement jolie.

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et ben alors t'as vraiment rien pour toi, débile raciste.

mullen · 17 Janvier 2011

Il y a quand même pas mal de pourris qui viennent nous rendre visite

jeunevoleur · 17 Janvier 2011

raven a dit: ↑

Plus le temps passe, plus je me dis qu'au lieu d'avoir affaire à une jolie russe, on a le droit à un gros troll qui pue...

Tes reflexions à la con, on s'en passera tatiana, si tu continues comme ça, tu prends la porte.

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C'est en effet pas très fin comme formule "la jolie russe".

Il était temps de la virer en tout cas.

raven · 17 Janvier 2011

C'était pour faire un contraste. C'était une forme d'humour, mais apparement je me suis loupé ><"

jeunevoleur · 17 Janvier 2011

raven a dit: ↑

C'était pour faire un contraste. C'était une forme d'humour, mais apparement je me suis loupé ><"

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Bah normal les problèmes de l'expression écrite. Difficile de se faire comprendre en quelques mots. Il y a pas de mal, je suis pas très fins non plus parfois!

Vialou · 18 Janvier 2011

Surlazone, la finesse ou plutôt la nuance des propos n'est pas du tout ton fort mais je préfère les gens comme toi que ceux qui tournent autour du pot.
La plupart des propos de Tatiana sont à condamner...

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