Comments on: Melbourne Gay Bar Sircuit Apologises For Police Tribute /news/melbourne-gay-bar-sircuit-apologises-for-police-tribute/202605 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Sat, 01 May 2021 06:02:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Byron /news/melbourne-gay-bar-sircuit-apologises-for-police-tribute/202605#comment-650300 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 01:49:37 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=202605#comment-650300 I’d like to acknowledge that the message was tone deaf of Aboriginal and LGBTIQ+ treatment by Victorian Police.

There are three different issues here;
1. Deaths in Custody – 3 decades of ignoring a MAJOR issue from various governments and both Victorian Police and the department of (in)justice.

2. The complete denial of Victorian Police in how they acted/behaved toward Mr Nik Dimopoulos and the Hares & Hyenas owners. And their disinclination to acknowledge what occured on the night.

3. The way a business and individual chose to remember the death of 4 police officers, including one who was gay.

Systemic problems in Victorian Police which are representative of the first two issues should not be an excuse to diminish the loss of four police officers. Should we ignore those four deaths because of the major systemic problems within Victorian Police?

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