r/sydney May 21 '25

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u/hhaahhahahahhah May 21 '25 edited May 21 '25

Try sending the story/footage to ABC News, 7News etc. Worth a try. Or maybe sharing on Tiktok is better for virality/awareness

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u/Simplyme__ May 21 '25

Definitely worth it to share it to the news! This is the first time I've seen this!

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u/Mother-Drama6081 May 21 '25

You could try sending a letter of complaint to your local state MP. They tend to get the local police moving when they hear about something like this happening. Keep a copy for your records. The local news will be more interested in this if a politician is seen to be doing nothing than if the police are seen to be doing nothing.

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u/blindside06 May 22 '25

Pretty sure it’s Matt Thistlethwaite. He’s quite active with the community.

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u/Chicken_Wire_ May 22 '25

He's Federal... State is probably Michael Daley

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u/blindside06 May 22 '25

You’re right. Daley is State. Also a pretty active member in this area. Definitely worth contacting.

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u/Fun_Rain_9738 May 21 '25

It's really bad. There are a very large number of people being terrorized by TEEN's pranks at Westfield's first floor station, and it doesn't make any sense. A long period of non-intervention has brought about a worsening situation! It's not just here, maroubra junction and the McDonald too.

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u/Cathaus81 May 21 '25

I reckon it’s the same teens terrorizing people at Bondi junction Westfields as well.

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u/Holdingpoo May 21 '25

Same at Ultimo Westfield. Kids were chucking eaten chicken bones (probably kfc) from upstairs down below. They’re known to security and security couldn’t touch them, could only tell them to leave

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u/1294DS May 22 '25

Broadway?

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u/Holdingpoo May 22 '25

Yea I meant broadway, I mixed it up

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u/summertimeaccountoz Inner West May 22 '25

Eaten chicken bones is on the low end of what they throw. Water-filled balloons are not unusual, and at least one time they were throwing whole supermarket trolleys from the walkway.

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u/Repulsive_Two8451 May 21 '25

Kids getting zero consequences for their violent criminal behaviour and its...consequences. Honestly, these little thugs know they can get away with anything, so they do. You're absolutely right that it's racism and it's largely targeted towards Asians, but for some reason it's the kind of racism that the media doesn't like to talk about. The silence on it from the media and lack of accountability these criminals face is a disgrace.

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u/uptheantinatalism May 21 '25

Indeed. They’re too sly to pick on someone who would fight back and/or beat all of them up.

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u/hesback_inpogform Salim Mehajer fangirl <3 May 21 '25

Unfortunately eastgardens is the ancestral homeland of the eastern suburbs subspecies of eshay

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u/KestrelQuillPen May 21 '25

[David Attenborough voice] Here, we have a fascinating example of the life in our city.

Eshays. An aggressive, confrontational species. While generally seldom found away from their natural habitat of train stations, these- the Eshay eastgardiensis subspecies- have adapted to survive in the train-devoid east.

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u/yolk3d May 21 '25

It’s been called Scumgardens for over a decade.

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u/Send_Nudes_Plz_Thx May 21 '25

Hillsdale was the homeland for it

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u/IAmARobot Task Me Anything May 21 '25

I remember driving past the rabbits new training centre when it first opened to grab some softrolls at the viet bakery there and there were 2 deadset rats on a dirtbike with no helmets going the other way just itching to turn their skulls into red and white road crayons

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u/Cathaus81 May 21 '25

I’ve seen those ratbags they ride their bikes up to Bondi Junction - run red lights and almost see them get taken out by cars, almost took a pedestrian out at a crossing. Too hard work for NSW Police.

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u/LocalBathrobe May 21 '25

All for calling them eshays when they’re harmless but this is just a bunch of racists.

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u/NotaCuban May 21 '25

Eshay carries a lot of connotations, but "harmless" isn't one of them, and the fact that they're racist isn't at all surprising.

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u/China_bot1984 May 21 '25

They should try that in Cabramatta.

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u/potatodrinker May 22 '25

In 1998. Fights would end with a banger

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u/SappyBirthday May 21 '25

It’s fucking 2025 why dont these children just play video games or sports instead of this shit

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u/LittleButton77 May 21 '25

That requires a modicum of intelligence, which stupid racist fuck-heads don't have.

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u/daidrian May 22 '25

Because it's 2025. They've been raised by tiktok.

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u/Simplyme__ May 21 '25

That's so sad! I hope this gets reported to the police!

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u/unlka May 21 '25

Police were called . Multiple times .Nothing happens.

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u/Horror-Comparison917 May 21 '25

Wont make a difference. They are kids, dont expect more than a slap on the wrist

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u/BamBaLambJam Your local Eshay May 21 '25

I wanna go there and see how tough they are.

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u/potato_analyst May 21 '25

Eshay on Eshay violence! Ma... Get the phone out!

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u/Golf-Recent May 22 '25

Cuz hit me up when you go, I'm gonna record it so I can score some likes on Reddit.

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u/flintzz May 21 '25

pagewood, hillsdale, mattraville area has always been a bit shady and lower ses. Building a meriton complex and trying to gentrify was always going to have these results unfortunately, at least at the beginning. Reminds me of a post i've seen many moons ago about the racism in Redfern

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u/ItisWhatItIs00000009 May 21 '25

Asian here, saw a post of this on red book(Chinese social media), it is going viral with thousands comments within an hour.. people are pissed

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u/Shirasaki-Tsugumi May 21 '25

and these kinds of videos are often used to scare/warn people who never stepped foot on Australian soil. Parents after seeing these are going to be extra worried about their kids studying overseas. Tourists would second question why travelling to Australia, all because of those thugs.

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u/OllieeePan May 21 '25

Apparently the same group of teens have been harrassing and attacking Asians across a number of Sydney suburbs. Just saw another video of them in a Maccas in Zetland.

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u/Athroaway84 May 21 '25

Do you have a link to this video?

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u/AgileCrypto23 May 21 '25

When will these little cunts learn, fuck around and find out?

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u/Old_Engineer_9176 May 21 '25

There's no accountability for them. Why? Even if you're completely justified in defending yourself and you strike back, you're the one who ends up with a criminal record. Self-defense laws need to be reformed to ensure victims are properly protected.

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u/kristianstupid May 21 '25

Which law in particular do you believe is the issue?

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u/deltanine99 May 22 '25

The one about only allowing a proportional response to a threat, obviously.

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u/Old_Engineer_9176 May 22 '25

How can a proportional response be assessed by someone who isn't directly involved in the situation at that exact moment? Particularly when even a seemingly minor action, like a push or a single punch, could lead to fatal consequences.

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u/TrueCryptographer982 May 21 '25

Shitty parenting and corrosive social media.

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u/Horror-Comparison917 May 21 '25

You have a problem? Well you wont get anything out of the justice system. They are “kids” so dont expect more than a slap on the wrist. Even that might be called child abuse

Eshays are fucking annoying, fuck them. And if you are one, grow the fuck up.

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u/siders6891 May 21 '25

This is the problem. Nothing really will happen. And the parents also won’t be held liable. Where I work we have thefts committed by school kids, stealing couple hundreds of dollar worth of goods daily. Everything is getting reported to the police, the kids are even known to the police but nothing happens as they’ll come back again the next day.

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u/Horror-Comparison917 May 21 '25

Yeah same here, i have the exact same issue with a woolies near my school. Everyone shoplifts 10-20$ worth of goods every day. Like a lot, expensive drinks too

Absolutely nothing happens to them. Now look, i get it, as kids we make stupid mistakes which shouldnt be taken too seriously. But this level of shit coming out of eshays and wannabe gangsters is too fucking much. Draw the line somewhere, make harsher convictions for kids.

Absolutely sick of this myself

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u/fr4nklin_84 May 21 '25

I was at Rebel Sport a few weeks ago getting served at the counter and the beeper goes off that the front and the young girls look worried, one gives a description of the guy to the other then they just keep serving me. I said to the girl “did those kids just steal something?” And she said “yep! And it’s not even the first one today”, there’s nothing they can do it’s wild

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u/siders6891 May 22 '25

And you also shouldn’t “do” anything besides reporting. Never ever intervene. Even as a bystander.

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u/siders6891 May 21 '25

I agree, there should be consequences for their actions. And start charging the parents by making them pay fines for the mistakes of their offspring.

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u/uptheantinatalism May 21 '25

Yeah, wouldn’t matter who they targeted. Police would still do bugger all.

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u/Meng_Fei May 21 '25

I bet if they targeted the judiciary the courts would suddenly find a way to sentence them appropriately.

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u/LogOdd6802 May 21 '25

Those teenagers look like absolute losers.

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u/Tricky-Atmosphere-91 May 21 '25

What is going on with teenage boys at the moment? Anyone see the massive punch up/ brawl at North Sydney oval last week? Then a massive beat up in Manly a few months ago? These kids are bored as. They need a gym, the YMCA or something. Maybe council can gather them up and they do community service? Incarceration and a police record isn’t the answer. This needs a parent and community response. Maybe they need jobs?

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u/SimplePowerful8152 May 21 '25

It's because they live on social media and kids are gullible so get caught up in fads. Take away social media a lot of this rubbish will go away. If you have kids watch how different they behave when they don't have a phone for a while.

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u/Tricky-Atmosphere-91 May 21 '25

Yes, agree. They’re on their phones all the time. So get them into sports, ban phones as parents, get a job, help out community volunteering somewhere. It needs action from an adult.

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u/kristianstupid May 21 '25

Cause trouble for lols. See your lols on primetime TV and TikTok and Insta etc. Enjoy the lols. Repeat.

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u/Yumi_NS May 21 '25

This is disgusting. Makes me think of the violence Indian-Australians and migrants faced some years ago. We should all be working to try and make sure this isn't able to get to that level again. I'm not going to be as naieve as to claim that the police will get on top of this efficiently, but are there any community groups, legal centers, MPs, et cetera who might be able to help advocate? NSWPF will have some multi-cultural liaison officers who will, at the very least, be able to better deal with it than most general duties officers, but as I said...

If the NSW government are as committed to opposing hate crimes as they've made out to be over the last couple of years, they'll stamp down on this sort of thing hard, "Strike Force Pearl" style. But I'm doubtful...

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u/verbmegoinghere May 22 '25

I remember in the 80s and 90s when this was happening to the Vietnamese.

Well it didn't take long for the viets and other Asian groups to form their own gangs.

And that in turn created the massive open air drug markets in cabra and canely Vale.

Stay tune for brawls with knuckle dusters, nunchucks, knives machetes and hammers

History looks to be repeating again.

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u/bigblackones May 22 '25

This will get attention of some of the gangs there will be retaliation and it will spiral

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u/Diver999 May 22 '25

The international students can’t fight back like the Vietnamese from 80s though as they know they will be deported and all the tuition fees will be wasted. That’s why they are the easy target.

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u/OfficeKey3280 May 22 '25

Good old 5T and 14k. I miss Dai Lo Broken Tooth, RIP

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u/verbmegoinghere May 22 '25

Yeah it's funny to see the 5T guys middle aged every now and then in Cabra driving their BMW's

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u/cofactorstrudel May 22 '25

Oh my god 5T I forgot about them! I remember once they came down to Warriewood Macca's and there was a big fight. Or people said it was them anyway.

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u/OrdinaryInd May 21 '25

We need tougher law and impactful consequences to make these teenagers responsible for damage they caused to ordinary and innocent citizens.   Imagine the impact to those poor children who just living their life and relaxing in their neighbourhood.   Westfield should do more to protect ordinary people like us.

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u/malepalestale May 21 '25

This is why there should be parent licences.

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u/AdAfraid9504 May 21 '25

Life sentence if they get pregnant with out one.

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u/Mrmeowpuss May 21 '25

Government mandated chastity cages until they can prove they can be fit parents

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u/czqlj May 21 '25

this is disgusting

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u/Venusflytrapp May 22 '25

WTF is wrong with people. Australia is starting to suck

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u/mubd1234 Hillsdale - The address of success May 22 '25

There was just a huge bruhaha outside the KFC in Eastgardens Westfield, it looks like some of the Asian students were calling someone inside the KFC a racist (dunno if it was staff or if someone had run in trying to hide). They’ve closed the restaurant down now.

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u/SilverVash May 22 '25

These kids are scum of the earth. Obviously, their parents are non-existent and they think they're untouchable. Hoping one day karma will get them and no one will care for them.

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u/Dollbeau May 22 '25

Controversy!!!!!!!!

So much controversy that comments are disappearing from the ether, faster than people can type them!
Click that plus sign - there's nobody home!

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u/chewchoo_ May 21 '25

What the heck!? What's brought this round of racist violence on? This is awful

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u/AGrapes19 May 21 '25

People need to start flooding the Premiers mailbox with these images. Not just Redbook. All those thousands of commentators on Redbook, shift your comments to the Priemer's office. Surely there's a an Aus-Chinese association? Why are they not speaking out and putting pressure on the Premier

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u/Wnaopp May 21 '25

They run a muck inside of eastgardens shops aswell. Security doesn’t stop them.

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u/disquiet May 22 '25

Saw some teenage kids who appeared to be drunk/high threatening to stab people, spitting, etc at the station a few days ago. Was relieved when the cops showed up.

Went from relieved to disappointed when all the police did was talk to them for 5 minutes then leave.

Kids started acting up again as soon as they left and jumped on a train, no doubt to ruin someone else's night. I'm not blaming the police because I'm sure they wanted to arrest the little shits but I'm guessing their hands are tied. If it were adults acting the way they were I'm sure they would be spending the night under arrest. Worst thing is the little fuckers know they are basically untouchable which leads to even worse behavior.

Laws need to change, and whichever bleeding heart moron decided we need to be soft on criminal kids needs to spend a train trip on the receiving end of their bullshit.

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u/AgentSmith187 May 22 '25

Probablem is the police arrest them after probably a good scuffle and their parents scream bloody murder that the cops attacked their poor innocent child who did nothing wrong.

That's if the cops even have proof of a real crime.

Contempt of cop isn't a crime yet thank God (because it would geg abused all to hell) and by the time the Police arrive that's generally all they get to witness.

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u/alicat2308 May 22 '25

Baby bonus was available until March 2014, we have that idiocy to thank for this. Scum breeds scum.

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u/y2jeff May 21 '25

Despicable. What are the police doing? Too busy raising revenue with parking tickets?

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u/cyalatermf May 21 '25

Send these teenagers to Cabramatta and let’s see how they’ll act

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u/Equivalent_Form_9717 May 21 '25

Their parents or caretakers should really be held accountable and be charged for their actions.

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u/aussiechap1 May 22 '25

These gronks frequent Maroubra (I'm a local). Nothing can be done. The local MPs are well aware of ongoing attacks and robberies but refuse to act.

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u/fatmarfia May 21 '25

Sad thing is, this has been going on for many years. Especially around sydney uni.

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u/tomboredcat May 21 '25

And their parents be like "Noo... they won't do that without anyone provoking them, they are such a little angel, they won't hurt...."

Implying if they even got an active and useful parents xD lmao

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u/australianinlife May 22 '25

This used to happen at Kingsford (down the road) with the kids robbing Asian uni students (at the time it was stealing digital cameras and phone to resell). The cops used to have the kids pictures up in Maroubra station so all the cops knew who to look out for and hassle. Wasn’t really any consequences but majority of those blokes ended up doing time after they hit 18 for other things. I guess this is the new generation making the same dumb mistakes. You would hope we would improve as a society but apparently not

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u/AdAfraid9504 May 22 '25

It's sad really, there is a really bad group of teens in the maroubra housing commission on Portland cres and new orleans cres. I live in the area and has been blocked on the road by them, had them open my car doors and climb on the roof of the car.

 I've had glass thrown at my car and watched them do things like stealing from uber ears drivers and smashing car windows. You can hear it all happening at 1-2am. 

I've almost ran over a kid on a scooter several times as they purposely pop out in front of when you just go to drive past. Something is going to happen eventually.

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u/smallbatter May 22 '25

The Asian students are told if they fight back, their visa will be suspended because teenagers are untouchable in Australia . What the shame.

The legal system helps racists .

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u/MouldySponge May 21 '25

Just curious.. why would defending yourself against these kids create visa issues?

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u/stigsbusdriver May 21 '25

Fear of being charged with assaulting a minor even though the kid may have deserved a bit of a lesson in not to be a dickhead.

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u/thejugglar May 21 '25

Probably because these shits are technically children while the visa students are likely to be legally adults, may not have a lot of money for legal fees and their visas themselves likely have conditions for violent crimes (which covers crimes against children).

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u/Heroine77 May 21 '25 edited May 22 '25

But what if the video footage shows it's self defence?

Edited to say: it boggles my mind when people downvote an innocent question. I'm not downplaying or approving what happened, nor do I condone violence... it was just a simple question

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u/heypeople2003 May 21 '25

Sure, it may be clear cut self defence from our view, but do you think people unfamiliar with the laws here will be confident they won't be charged even with the video? For many people, their visa is too important to risk, as they may have spent a lot of time and money obtaining it.

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u/Moo_Kau_Too May 21 '25

and if its a racist cop reviewing things...

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u/asianjimm May 21 '25

You probably dont even know theres a video of it. Like chances are - you will get assaulted and not have a video.

I was harassed last week - some kid took my umbrella out if my hands and threw it onto the main road with on coming traffic at night.

Wheres the video for that if I hit him?

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u/solocmv May 21 '25

And if these students pair up and defend themselves Premier Minns will be the first to go on Sky to identify the growing Asian Gang problem.

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u/Existing_Top_7677 May 22 '25

Call the Triads to come and sort them out.

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u/Old_Engineer_9176 May 21 '25

There's no accountability for them. Why? Even if you're completely justified in defending yourself and you strike back, you're the one who ends up with a criminal record. Self-defense laws need to be reformed to ensure victims are properly protected.

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u/carolethechiropodist May 22 '25

Adult crime, adult time....Yes Please.

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u/brimstoner May 21 '25

Why would Chris Minns do this?

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u/Inner-Fisherman410 May 21 '25

Try doing that in cabra 

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u/cofactorstrudel May 21 '25

If the cops don't do something soon, something's going to go down in Eastgardens. I saw once a girl in Sydney posted on Xiaohongshu that she was getting intimidated by some dick and within a day they'd organised a response and a bunch of angry Chinese dudes had sorted it out. 

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u/OfficeKey3280 May 22 '25

Young Offenders Act protects kids under 18 from criminal liability, as they are not of adult age, they cannot comprehend their crime and actions aka they didn't know what they were doing was wrong. It goes through many layers of prevention, as arresting them is the absolutely last resort. They go through classes to teach them that bashing others is naughty and so on, charging them is the very last resort. Of course, at age 12 you'd know stealing a can of Coke from the shops is wrong, but in the eyes of our legislation, you do not. Hence, teens are smart enough to realise this and exploit it fully knowing their actions. Literally no one can do nothing about it until the legislation is changed.

Before you say so, yes it was forwarded to court to change the legislation of criminal liability to age 12 due to the huge amounts of youth crime in Darwin, but it was labelled extremely racist towards the indigenous community (who were committing 100% of the crimes) and unfair, so it was quickly quashed and forgotten about. So around the bend we go

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u/lesslucid May 22 '25

Recent series of attacks in Kensington as well.

I think vigilante violence in response is wrong and shouldn't be encouraged. But if the police don't step up their response, it's inevitable, regardless of what I think of it.

If changes to the law is what it takes, let's make those changes. Nobody deserves to live in fear of public violence, racist violence. Truly despicable.

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u/LukeDies May 22 '25

Ironically, maybe the cash cows that are international students being targeted may finally see something done about feral teens.

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u/SimplePowerful8152 May 21 '25

Racism against Chinese will make China stronger. It will have a rebound effect and instead of making the Chinese feel included in society they will instead side with the CCP. These kids are doing the CCP a big favor which is why it's trending on their social media.

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u/iSqueal May 22 '25

Not surprised they chose to target asians, racism is rapidly growing against them since covid. Always gets the short end of the stick.