Woman dies while being held in WA police custody

black-australia:

A 22-year-old woman dies while being held in police custody at South Hedland in WA’s north.

Let’s see if white Australians will give this tragedy them same amount of attention they give to injustices that happen internationally to PoC?!

Edit: Some suspect the woman was of Aboriginal descent, but that hasn’t been confirmed as true or false yet. However, Western Australia has one of the highest incarceration rates of Aboriginal peoples so it would not be unreasonable to wonder if she was Aboriginal or not. Deaths in custody has a long history in Australia and the news of her death has sparked conversations on Indigenous incarceration. Here is a more informative article on this tragedy.