August 03, 2015
Top US Lawyer says treatment of Maori as bad as blacks in America
A top US lawyer who spoke at a law conference in Auckland yesterday says Maori are being treated as badly as blacks in his country.
Former Judge Bill Murphy' who defended Freddie Grey whose recent death in Police custody sparked riots in Baltimore and other cities across the US, told the New Zealamnd bar Association that the 45 year long war on drug is racist and its failed.
He says the over-representation of Maori in New Zealand Prisons is due to the same type of colonization and its after-math that's gone on in the US with the 'war on drugs' actually being a war on coloured people with drugs while white folk walk free.
Bill Murphy says New Zealand should stop thinking law enforcement can solve the drug problem.
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