Hit-run driver's 'disgusting' messages aired in court
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One man died and another was injured after Jake Danby struck them with his car outside a Darwin shopping centre in 2024, with the driver then sending a series of "disgusting" text messages about the victims.

A 24-year-old man who hit two Aboriginal pedestrians with his car and sped away, later bragging to his friends he’d run down an “oxygen thief”, has been spared actual jail time

The court heard Danby sent a series of “disgusting” text messages to his friends in the hours after the crash, in which he labelled the crash victims as “dogs” and “n***ers”.

No jail ? Lucky he didn’t run Charke Kirk down I guess.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Fyi there is no “attempt” at cultural genocide. Genocide is a crime in the act itself, regardless of the success of lack thereof in the outcome.

    • Nath@aussie.zoneMEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      You aren’t wrong, but they didn’t think like that at the time. The racism was off the charts by today’s standards. It’s ghastly to look back on and the psychological damage this policy did is immeasurable and ongoing. But beyond all that, they truly were attempting to improve the lives of “the savages” as they saw it.

      “The Board may assume full control and custody of the child of any aborigine, if after due inquiry it is satisfied that such a course is in the interest of the moral and physical welfare of such child. The Board may thereupon remove such child to such control and care as it thinks best.”