An incident where police in Australia opened fire on a couple that was having sex at a Melbourne nightclub has resulted in the victims being paid over $3 million AUD.
Justice John Dixon told the court on Monday that the weapon, made of hollow plastic with an obvious seam down the middle, was such an obvious fake that it"would be obvious to a 5-year-old."
In addition, police had been warned before entering the club that Ewins possessed the toy gun. He had presented it to security at the club and made it known it was fake. In an audio recording from the club, Ewins could be heard repeatedly yelling"It's a fake gun" as they shocked him., Victoria's Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission conducted an inquiry into the shooting and found the Victoria police did not perform a review of the officers' actions after the raid.
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton claimed that an internal investigation backed up the police claim that the shooters acted in self-defense.This is the latest in a series of excessive force missteps by Victoria police and the CIRT in particular.
In May of 2019, a CIRT raid on a LGBTQ bookstore in Fitzroy, following an erroneous tip that an armed intruder was inside, resulted in officers assaulting a man named Nik Dimopoulos who lived in an apartment above the store. In the attack, police used enough force to dislocate his shoulder from its socket and break several bones in his arm, according to the
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