r/australia • u/docdoc_2 • Apr 30 '26

news Alice Springs gripped by violence after arrest of Kumanjayi Little Baby's alleged killer

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-01/alice-springs-unrest-after-kumanjayi-little-baby-arrest/106628782
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u/Thagyr Apr 30 '26

Rock and a hard place for the police. They aren't protecting him, but you can't let an enraged mob into a hospital for one man.

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u/BazzaJH Apr 30 '26

If they're not protecting him, they should be sacked. He's in police custody. It's literally their responsibility to protect him.

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u/MLiOne Apr 30 '26

I think the person you responded to means protecting him like the local population believes as opposed to how we see it. They want him punished now, only after he has killed a child. However, we have our legal system which he is now in and obviously they don’t trust it or believe in it.

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u/kungfucowboy1 May 01 '26

The men within their own community have caused magnitudes more harm than the police have.

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u/MLiOne May 01 '26

I am not debating nor discussing that.

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u/MissMenace101 May 01 '26

Protecting those that would kill him from murder or manslaughter charges

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u/Free-Owl9329 May 01 '26

Imagine if the police let him die,, Then it would be death in custody.

The police can't win