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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Smee

Protests in north Queensland town of Mareeba after family say man killed by police was unarmed

Desley Ketchup at the protest outside Mareeba police station after her son Aubrey Donahue was shot dead by Queensland police on Saturday
Desley Ketchup, centre, at the protest outside Mareeba police station on Monday after her son Aubrey Donahue, 27, was shot dead by Queensland police two days earlier. Photograph: ABC News

The family of an Aboriginal man killed by police in the north Queensland town of Mareeba say he was unarmed, holding a mobile phone and attempting to surrender when he was shot four times by tactical officers.

Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters marched through Mareeba on Monday demanding “answers” from police over the shooting of Aubrey Donahue, 27, two days earlier.

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