An asylum seeker intervened in the Bondi Beach terror attack but was shot at by police and attacked by members of the public.
New video footage from the scene shows the man climbing the stairs to the bridge where the two gunmen lay injured after being shot by police marksmen.
The member of the public is seen kicking a weapon away from the terrorists – but police continue firing at the bridge, causing the man to duck for cover.
As police close in on the injured gunmen, the refugee is then challenged by members of the public, who mistake him for a terrorist.
Again, the “assuming you’re the bad guy based on your ethnicity regardless of what you did” part has been shown to actually happen to non-white people much more frequently than white people in white majority countries. And by “lesson learned” I was referring to the fact that this is something many people will inevitably think after seeing a story like this even if they don’t say it, though I should have made that more clear.
I admit I was too snarky/aggressive/us-vs-them with my wording, I see your point there and deleted that comment as I no longer wish to say those exact words. But, is the fact that THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS not a bigger problem that plagues society than how politely people articulate it? How about we work on not having this happen or at least not having it be more likely to happen to certain ethnicities than others so no one makes those comments again instead of dismissing it as the person who points it out needing to fuck off? Do the people responsible for causing this racial injustice not also have the responsibility to contribute to mitigating it in the future?