#4 BLM - Ms Dhu

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🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This month in our Black Lives Matter series, we discuss the death of Ms Dhu. During the two day's Ms Dhu spent in police custody in Western Australia, she was dropped to the floor, lifted by her hands and feet, and another prisoner was dragged into her cell to stare at her. She went through all of this while being verbally abused and suffering from sepsis. She died of preventable causes aged just twenty-two, while a white officer stood over her saying she was "faking it". This is Ms Dhu's story.

Sheila Humphries TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V3SX0H7pHc

Guardian database of indigenous deaths in custody: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2018/aug/28/deaths-inside-indigenous-australian-deaths-in-custody

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0:00.0	Hello, I can't remember how we start these ones, but welcome to the fourth installment of
0:06.9	our Black Lives Matter series. We will be doing these for the rest of 2020. Our aim with
0:13.0	this is to highlight one Black Lives Matter case from all over the world every month,
0:17.3	so we keep thinking about it and we don't just tweet about it for a week and then forget.
0:22.5	Exactly, and I don't even think that's said in sort of a cynical way as if people who
0:27.0	have been doing it don't really care or anything. It's just so hard, isn't it? We have so much going
0:32.4	on with our lives at the moment with COVID, with political situations, our own personal, you know,
0:38.7	health, mental health, whatever it may be. So this is just a way for us to try and keep it in
0:44.7	the newsfeed. That's it, really. And also, when you're forming an opinion on something,
0:49.2	political or otherwise, it's a process. You shouldn't just decide what you think and then never
0:53.0	re-address it again. You have to keep engaging with yourself in a discourse about your opinions on
0:58.8	things. Otherwise, just become setting your ways and no one can tell you, no one can tell you,
1:02.9	and we all know people like that. So in previous episodes, we have kicked off with some statistics,
1:09.1	and they have got quite a reaction. Some people have even emailed us to enlighten us that those
1:13.5	statistics were wrong. They're not. They weren't. They aren't. They're conducted by the government.
1:18.2	So if they were wrong, it's far more likely that they would be made to look better, not worse.
1:23.0	And if you are going to email us debating statistics, try not to begin your argument with the blacks.
1:28.5	It doesn't help your, I'm not racist, but argument. I think that was actually in the email,
1:32.9	and I was like, are you a meme? Sometimes I doesn't feel real. And obviously, we know that we do have
1:37.9	a wide range of people who are going to listen to these, who maybe even just come across them by accident,
1:42.0	don't know who we are. But I just think they were arguing about the stats, but they were also pointing
1:47.7	out that kind of really baffling, still zombie of an idea that people message in and say,
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