NT: Video of cop telling drunk Aborigine to dance sparks fury
27 Jan 2009 2:43 PM
A laughing police officer instructed a drunk Aboriginal man in Katherine to sing and dance while he filmed the event .. with the footage later posted on YouTube.
The video shows a a heavily intoxicated Aborigine singing The Rivers of Babylon at the behest of a police officer holding a video recorder.
The Aboriginal man .. who's staggering and appears close to falling .. continues to sing and dances about in a circle before being directed towards a police car.
The video's prompted outrage from some online viewers .. with some describing it as racist and calling for the officer to be sacked or jailed.
Northern Territory police say the officer who filmed the event has received counselling .. after an internal investigation found his treatment of the man to be humiliating and demeaning.
