A police officer in West Australia has lost his job, all because he tried to help a racist woman who waved a knife at him and screamed abuse, and made a technical error on arrest.
M. Knight Shyamamalan plot twist: the copper is white and the woman is Aboriginal. But, despite bodycam footage clearly showing that she was the only person to use racial abuse, the police officer has been damned as a “racist”. Even worse, the Industrial Relations Commission praised the racist black woman for “call[ing] out racism”.
A former WA police officer has lost an appeal against his removal from the force over the arrest of an Indigenous woman in Geraldton, which happened just months after the high-profile death of Yamatji woman JC.
Which should be of no relevance whatsoever. Every case should be judged on its own merits — but this is the ABC establishing, as they say, a “narrative”. In saner times, we called that “poisoning the well”.
The commission heard Mr Lee was a police officer stationed in Geraldton in November 2019, two months after JC was shot dead, when the senior constable answered an emergency call from an Indigenous woman known only as Ms G.
Ms G called the station twice saying she needed help to remove her ex-partner, who was white, from her home.
Again the ABC poisons the well with that magic phrase, “who was white”. You can see where this story’s going, already.
When officers attended they found her in an agitated state, standing on her front step holding a serrated kitchen knife.
The officers asked her to drop the weapon, which Ms G later told investigators had been protection against her ex-partner, and she threw it into her front garden.
Body-worn cameras recorded a conversation between the two officers and Ms G, and a transcript submitted to the commission detailed the conversation in which Ms G expressed fear of her ex-partner.
Ms G: “Your colour could have killed me before you got here.”
Imagine if the coppers had rocked up and straight away said, “Oh, we’re dealing with your colour again”?
Indeed, the police treated that invective as exactly what it was.
Mr Lee: “Our colour? Right, if you’re going to be racist, we’re leaving. Bye.”
The conversation on camera was then obscured by loud wind noise, but vision appeared to then show Mr Lee turning back to Ms G and arresting her.
Mr Lee: “You’re under arrest, racially aggravated public order.”
This is the only place where Lee’s made a genuine mistake. A former UK police officer, he mistakenly arrested her for what is a criminal offence in Britain, but not West Australia.
In fact, it was Lee’s UK heritage and skin colour which led to the avalanche of racist invective from the Aboriginal woman.
As noted by the commission, there was an attempt to understand what made Mr Lee react and attempt to arrest the woman, and both accounts from the officers and Ms G appeared to indicate the woman had referred to him as an “English pig” […]
Ms G was taken to the Geraldton Police Station where she was charged with two counts of disorderly conduct and possessing an article with intent to cause fear.
While in custody, video footage recorded the moment a gate housekeeper asked Ms G if she had any allergies they should be aware of.
“Yeah, racist white arseholes,” she responded […]
In court documents, both men stated Ms G had “screamed racial abuse” at them, telling them to “f*** off back to your own country” and “accusing them of murder”.
Again, imagine the tables being turned on that statement.
But, of course, the troughers in the Aboriginal industry immediately swung into action.
And, of course, the wet, woke courts system took the side of the black racist.
“Given the events that preceded Ms G’s reference to racist white arseholes, including her complaints that she had contacted police for assistance, and they had arrested her rather than her white ex-partner, she had perfectly reasonable cause to call out racism” the judgement read […]
Actually, the police had perfectly reasonable cause to arrest the woman who greeted them with a knife and screamed continuous racial abuse at them.
“It is a well-documented fact that Aboriginal people suffer discrimination and racism in and by white society … Ms G was perfectly placed to express what is likely to be her real, lived experience of racism.”
ABC Australia
The only people in this incident who have experienced real, lived racism are the white police abused by a black woman. But these are the rules of the new racism: know your place, whitey.