Aboriginal Cop sacked
THE Northern Territory Police Force is proud of its Aboriginal Community Police Officers except, it seems, when they act like Aborigines.
Gwen Brown, 53, one of the most awarded and senior ACPOs in the Territory, has been sacked for hitting her nephew with a stick, but she says she has the cultural right to do so.
“I got him and hit him on the butt with a stick, about three times,” she said. “It was just a long, thin ceremony stick. He put his arms behind him and I accidentally broke his arm.”I used to smack my kids on the backside and they always put their hands there to try and deaden the blows and never once did any of them end up with a broken arm. Gwen Brown’s nephew was either suffering from some desease that took all the strength from his bones or she went ballistic. One or the other. “I accidentally broke his arm with a thin stick” doesn’t cut it.