Rally for TJ Hickey
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2015-04-16

The 11th Anniversary rally held in Redfern on February 14, 2015, was held in memory of the killing of TJ Hickey, a teenage Aboriginal by Redfern police. Because the police suffer humiliation every year as the rally marches to Redfern police station. Police have stated they are in fear of their lives from peaceful demonstrators, so this year, 2015, the police tried to prevent the march from entering the city claiming to do so would start off rioting like that seem in the US over the killing of another teenage African American where an all white jury found the police not guilty and a riot broke out. 
The Redfern police were determined to prevent the march from passing and stopping in front of the police station and so blocked the march on the day with dozens, if not a hundren police. With pressure applied to TJ's mother, Gail, the march was forced to an alternate route. Here is what happened...