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Lloyd Jones

Calls persist for external probe into death in custody

Calls have grown for an external inquiry into the death of a man forcibly restrained by police. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Canberra should withhold funding from a territory government until it allows an independent inquiry into the death in custody of a young man living with disability, a key Aboriginal authority says. 

Kumanjayi White died shortly after being forcibly restrained by two plain-clothes police officers at a supermarket in Alice Springs on May 27.

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