Yahoo News (AAP): ‘Disruptive’ bail checks left brothers scared of police

The family of two Aboriginal children left frightened of police officers after experiencing more than 150 home bail checks in just under two years, have filed a racial discrimination case in the Federal Court. 

Two brothers, aged 11 and 13 at the time, were on bail for being passengers in a stolen car when NSW police began to conduct home checks on them, often late at night or in the early hours of the morning.

Their mother, who is using the pseudonym Megan for legal reasons said multiple police officers would come to her home, knock on the doors, shine torches through and bang on the windows during these checks.

“I’d have to wake (my sons) up to bring them to the door,” she told AAP.

“If they were sleeping and too tired to get up I’d have to let anywhere between two to four police officers come inside to see if they were in their bed and had their PJs on.”

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