Saturday, September 13, 2014

Shocking footage of Australian police in riot gear removing children at ‘gunpoint’


Social services and police have been criticised in Australia after footage emerged apparently showing officers dressed in riot gear raiding a home to remove multiple children from one family.

Footage was provided to Australia’s National Indigenous TV (NITV) news show and the video showed the New South Wales police entering a home at around 6:30am earlier in the year to remove some young Aboriginal children.

The police were joined by the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS).

The parents who were awoken by the police told NITV that the officers’ guns were pointed at them as they were then handcuffed while their children were removed from their care .... http://www.independent.co.uk