Indigenous Australian TV Host Brooke Boney Shares Family's Experience With Police Brutality
Indigenous Australian television host Brooke Boney has spoken about her own family’s experience with police brutality after Black man George Floyd’s death in the US, and recent footage of a white Sydney police officer slamming an Aboriginal teenager to the ground.
The ‘Today’ show presenter, who is a proud Gamilaroi woman, told viewers on Wednesday that she has “seen stuff like this my whole life” after growing up in a housing commission in Muswellbrook in NSW’s Hunter Valley area.
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“What we are seeing there is the lived experience of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. There wouldn’t be an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person who hasn’t been affected by this sort of violence, by deaths in custody and been deeply affected by the pictures coming out of the US,” she said.
The media personality recalled an incident a few years ago where she saw her grandfather approached by police with physical force.
“I know that sometimes police are heavy-handed when it comes to Aboriginal people. One of the experiences that I had at the footy a few years ago...” she said on the Channel 9 breakfast TV show.
“The police frogmarched my 72-year-old grandfather out. Every single one of us...
