Confronting footage posted online shows a huge group of Aboriginals hurling spears at each other during a mass brawl in the Northern Territory.
A video clip shared by community advocacy group Action for Alice 2020 on social media shows the violence unfold in Numbulwar, formerly known as Rose River Mission, about 600km east of Darwin on the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Aborigines are spearing each other in the remote community of Numbulwar, in the Northern Territory.
Footage filmed from inside a police vehicle.
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It is unclear when the video, filmed from inside a police vehicle and originally posted to TikTok, was filmed.
“We’ve got one guy hit in the chest,” an officer says through the radio as the video begins.
Combatants can then be seen attacking each other as police officers observe one man being speared through the leg and another get hit in the shoulder.
“We’ve gotta go and help this fella,” says a female cop before the sirens are turned on and the video ends.
In 2019 Northern Territory Police reinforcements were sent to Numbulwar after a 51-year-old woman was shot through the arm and the chest with a crossbow during a fight between feuding family groups.
Three years before that a police officer pulled out his shotgun and got between about 100 members of two rival groups who were armed with spears and machetes in the community which has population of about 700.
The Northern Territory has been grappling with rising indigenous crime in recent years, and in July Alice Springs was ranked the 18th most dangerous city in the world.
The situation in there has been deteriorating so rapidly that although this is the second year the town has made the top 20 (2023 and 2024), in 2022 it wasn’t in the top 450 most crime-ridden cities.
At that time the worst city in Australia for crime was the NSW Central Coast town of Gosford ranking 58th.
Youth crime rates in the Northern Territory are up 50% since 2020.
