[KangarooJacqui]

Horrifying... I just heard a report on the news that the rioters were subdued with high-pressure fire hoses.

I'm currently staying in Sydney's inner southwest (just a few minutes' drive from where this happened), and I wondered what the police sirens and choppers were all about.

Chilling to think this sort of thing can happen here. Sydney's fast turning into this side of the Pacific's Los Angeles or Chicago, in my opinion...

[debg]

Kid's name is Thomas Hickey..here's a photo:

[Tijeras_Slim]

Also interesting was the link on the page (upper right) to a Police probe of an anarchist website. What's going on down there?

[null and void]

Yikes!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It appears the incident was sparked by the death of a 17-year-old boy who was impaled on a metal fence after falling from his bicycle on Saturday

That is a very weird way to die. It would have to be a very tall bicycle or very little fence.

Any more information on exactly how this happened?

[wretchard]

The aborigines have pretty much been destroyed by welfare and reservation policies that have turned many into alcoholics and criminals. There's a whole industry devoted to keeping the aborigines in the 'victim' condition. This is so bizarre that people who look absolutely white style themselves as aboriginal leaders. It confuses the hell out of Asian-Australians, probably because they have the sense to see the occasional absurdity of it.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Unless there's a lot more to this story than is being told, these people were desperately looking for a reason to riot.  Sounds like a minor tow-stubbing on a public telephone booth would do it.

[KangarooJacqui]

Downunder ping...

(you sure you want to come to this part of the world? The Aboriginies are the supposed "peaceable" race... New Zealand's Maori cause even more trouble!)

[BurbankKarl]

do they have a waiting period for molotov cocktails down there?

[Imal]

This article is most remarkable for what it does not report.

[Huber]

The Ozzies forgot to ban molotov cocktails when they banned guns! Heck, with the strict gun laws in Australia, they shouldn't really even need a police force anymore. I wonder what went wrong.../sarcasm

[smpc]

Sydney's fast turning into this side of the Pacific's Los Angeles or Chicago, in my opinion...

This so called 'riot' is nothing but a bunch of Eveleigh St kids running amok like they have for the last 50 years.I used to have to walk to work past Eveleigh St every weekday and these kids were brats,but far from hardened criminals.The cops just need to leave them alone to be kids,instead of going in jackbooted and treating them like murderous crims.The only crimes they commit are against each other.Eveleigh St is Sydneys only 'ghetto',now try walking through a ghetto in LA or Chicago and do the comparison.

[Veggie Todd]

I read this story on Yahoo and it said that the people have been stock piling rocks and bricks. Sounds like they were just waiting for an excuse to attack the cops. Can't we all just get along?

[armed_in_sydney]

armed police with dog squads and armour hurt by a bunch of kids throwing bricks in Redfern?hurt what,feelings?i tell ya,its the LA riots all over again,except thousands of disgruntled blacks have been replaced by a hundred barefoot 12 year old aboriginals.scary sydney!almost as bad as our supposed ethnic crime wave where there were four shootings in 6 months!unlike other major cities around the world who have 10 shootings in a day.im afraid to walk the mean streets of sydney.and whose the smarty who put GUNBANCONNECTION as a keyword?lmao