'I live with this every day': An Aboriginal man has settled a legal case over alleged police brutality after bodycam footage emerged that appears to support claims he was assaulted during an arrest in Southbank in September 2020.
, a Victoria Police spokeswoman defended the force’s response, saying “we are satisfied with the use of force in relation to this incident”, while claiming the officers’ bodycams had not been turned on because of the “dynamic nature” of the incident.
The force reached an undisclosed financial settlement with Penny and his legal team just days before the case was due to go to trial in March. “Korey was riding his bike on his way to work, when he was spear-tackled to the ground. There is just no way that this is a proportionate use of force and yet, in the absence of direct footage of the incident, police continue to argue ‘there’s nothing to see here’,” Petrie said.
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