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More than 100 Indigenous children took part in a traditional ceremony in Perth, as elite cricketers joined in for a minute of silence at a boot camp for up and coming Indigenous players.
“A young boy’s life has been cut short by an act of violence, and that shouldn’t happen to anybody, no matter what their background is, and it’s something that as a society we should be pretty ashamed of,” WA cricket CEO Christina Matthews said
He died later in hospital.
A candle-lit roundtable was also held in Los Angeles.
Australian expats united with African Americans – calling for collective change.
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Organiser, Sam Cook, said they wanted to hold an intimate event to “heal and grieve”.
“We have to start addressing racism in Australia,” Cook said.
“We have to start addressing racism worldwide – we have to call hate crimes, hate crimes.”
WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch was criticised in the aftermath of the attack, saying on 6PR radio previously that Cassius had been in the “wrong place at the wrong time”.
He later defended his comments, saying; “Cassius was the innocent victim of a violent attack”.
He has refused to say if the attack was racially motivated.
