In short:
A class action against police stripsearching people at music festivals is underway in NSW.
The young woman leading the class action had her experience described by a lawyer as “akin to a sexual assault”.
The lawyer also claimed that the state failed to adequately train officers on the strict rules surrounding strip searches.
Yup. Not to quite the same extent as America…you’re much less likely to get shot by an Australian cop, and cops who do provably wrong as an individual (as opposed to institutional problems like the one in this story) are much more likely to get charged here. But by and large it’s exactly the same problem.
It used to be a huge problem in QLD in the 1980s.
Wait, that was when Dutton was a cop, wasn’t it!?
Yes.
victoria has entered the chat