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The Briefing … Indigenous man dies after police encounter
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An Indigenous man in Sydney has died after an encounter with NSW Police.
Patrick Fisher, 31, fell 13 floors from a balcony at a Waterloo housing block yesterday after police entered the flat looking to take the man into custody. NSW Police has launched a critical incident investigation, saying “officers attached to Redfern Local Area Command have established a crime scene”. Speaking to the ABC, a relative of Fisher said “he wouldn’t have killed himself, he had too much to live for”, and called for an independent investigation into how he died …
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