Published: November 10, 2019
Indigenous woman’s children call for criminal investigation and say systemic racism was a cause of her death
The family of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day, who died in police custody, have made a plea to Victoria’s coroners court for individual police officers to be held accountable for her death.
“We know that our mum died in custody because police targeted her for being drunk in public and then failed to properly care for her after they locked her up,” her children – Belinda Stevens, Warren Stevens, Kimberly Watson and Apryl Watson – said in a statement issued before final oral submissions began in the inquest into her death began on Monday.
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