Can the police make racial comments while arresting me?
Are you is Sydney Australia because the New South Wales police are having a big clean up of young drunk people hanging about on the town this weekend and in the coming weeks. If you were one of the unlucky 100 and something people arrested last night for drunk and disorderly behaviour – commiserations. Some of the people on the TV new had bleeding heads and couldn’t stand up. they were terrible. You don’t sound as though you were quite that bad. But you do sound as though you were a bit out of it. The smart thing to do would be to get some legal aid. You should be able to get legal aid free at the University of New South Wales. They used to have a program there for young law student who would take on cases like yours “Pro Bono” or free. I doubt that the magistrate or judge will give you anything more than a warning. http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/asp/index… While it isn’t pleasant to have racist remarks made abou
Can the police make racial comments while arresting me?