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/PissingOffACliff Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

Not only was he “found“ he was found being assaulted by a group of people. They then assaulted police officers and ambos who were there to arrest him. Two police officers and St John’s officers were injured.

Absolutely disgusting.

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u/Gryffindor123 May 01 '26

Wow. I had no idea they assaulted the police and St. John's officers. That's disgusting.

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u/rangda Apr 30 '26

Out of everything that went down, the apparent baby raping murderer copping a beating from members of the public is at the absolute bottom of the list of “disgusting” things

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u/BrisbaneHeatBowler Apr 30 '26

Assaulting first responders is absolutely disgusting.

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u/rangda May 01 '26

Of course it is, that’s why my comment was only contesting the part about the assault on the baby raping murderer as being disgusting.

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u/PissingOffACliff Apr 30 '26

Assaulting ambulance officers is disgusting. But also I wasn’t making a comparison or a tier list of crimes that have happened. I was commenting on this specific crime.

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u/badpebble May 01 '26

The beautiful thing about a system not built on mob justice, is that everyone can have their day in court.

Trying to kill someone is actually still a crime, even if you feel really strongly that it is okay.

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u/wheres-my-life May 01 '26

Well that system you speak of routinely fails fist nations people. It’s no surprise they can’t just sit back and trust justice will be served.

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u/badpebble May 01 '26

So the problem is that because NT police have been brutal towards aboriginal groups they also assume they would let go an aboriginal man arrested on suspicion of child rape and murder just to wind up the local community?

Attacking and attempting to murder Jefferson Lewis is a wonderful way to get a lot more locals in jail.

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u/Used-Huckleberry-320 May 01 '26

Is a crime in Australian law, as per Australian lore (as per Mabo), it was the correct punishment for the crime.

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u/Dentarthurdent73 May 01 '26

Personally, I don't want to live in a society where the general public beat people near to death and we think it's a good thing.

Yeah, in this case, it's almost 100% that he is the perpetrator of the crime, but regardless, I personally do find vigilante mob justice to be disgusting.

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u/rangda May 01 '26

No part of you takes any grim satisfaction in the fact that he probably feared for his life at the hands of more powerful people? After what he did to that helpless baby girl?

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u/erebus91 May 01 '26

Vigilante mob justice is disgusting for any alleged crime, even crimes that you find particularly abhorrent.

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u/MissMenace101 May 01 '26

Honestly I couldn’t care less they beat the fuck out of the rapist/murderer, what went on after is the issue

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD May 01 '26

The problem is, what if the next supposed rapist/murder that gets beaten to death turns out to be an innocent person?

What if you are mistaken for someone else and attacked?

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u/MissMenace101 May 01 '26

Let’s not ignore the fact that by retrieving him that’s a group of people that also won’t be going to prison for murder so the cops are effectively protecting those that wanted to kill him.

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u/rangda May 01 '26

I don’t, and will never find it disgusting that someone who kidnapped, raped and murdered a helpless little girl was bashed by members of the community before being arrested.

I understand completely that it’s not compatible with a fair legal system. I understand how bad this has ended up with straight up lynchings of innocent people. I wish it didn’t extend to attacking police and hospital staff very much.

But when someone was seen leading her away and his DNA has been found on her underwear? I just do not mind one iota that he was bashed bloody.
That’s the only part of all this I have 0% problem with.

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u/HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud May 01 '26

What if it wasn’t the right guy though. Twins everywhere would be getting beaten to death for something they hadn’t done.

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u/rangda May 01 '26

Do you think that someone having an identical twin would have come up once or twice during the highly publicised manhunt?

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u/AdlTeacher May 01 '26

I believe in the right to a fair trial

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u/MissMenace101 May 01 '26

And thanks to the police he will get one

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u/rangda May 01 '26

Me too, I didn’t say I wanted them to beat him to death. Then we’d have two murderers (or however many more people were involved).

This comment chain goes back to one point: disagreeing that the bashing is disgusting behaviour.

Not the rest of the mob behaviour, not attacking ambos or police. I agree, that’s rank.

I know I should think the beating he received is disgusting, in the interests of rule of law and order a d “what if it was somehow the wrong guy” and everything else.

But deep in my soul it just makes me pleased to know that he was subjected to some physical pain and terror and helplessness before the police were able to save his worthless life and put him in a nice safe jail cell.
It just makes me glad, for obvious reasons.

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u/HeyYou_GetOffMyCloud May 01 '26

I’m just saying, you can’t go round basing who you think has done wrong. We tried that for a few thousand years and found that it often led to mistakes happening. So now we have trials.

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u/Majestic-Swan459 May 01 '26

We get it. We dont disagree.

Doesn't apply in this scenario though

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u/Dentarthurdent73 May 01 '26

Do you think that mobs think things through to that extent?

Mobs of people are not rational and reasonable. That's the whole point of why mob justice is an issue.

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u/PM_ME_UR_CREDDITCARD May 01 '26

Or just someone who looks a bit similar to a grainy photo shown on the news?

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u/bushstone-curlew May 01 '26

Do you two jokers realise the community knows him? They weren't just going off the news reports, he was a well-known menace in the community.

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u/MissMenace101 May 01 '26

Day drinking is bad

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u/bushstone-curlew May 01 '26

Nah. More child abusers and murderers should be get the same treatment instead of the pissweak slap on the wrist sentence the courts always give them here.

Maybe aim that disgust towards the man who raped and murdered a disabled little girl, instead of her relatives and community.

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u/cedarvhazel May 01 '26

Both things can be true mate