A 24-year-old Aboriginal man who died after being stopped by the police in Alice Springs was from the remote community of Yuendumu.
Northern Territory Police said the man stopped breathing shortly after two officers had withheld him on Tuesday around 1:10 pm in a coles supermarket after a fight.
Assistant commissioner Travis Wurst said the man placed items along the front of his clothing when he was confronted with guards.
“One of the guards was attacked and there were two police officers, who were in normal clothes at that time,” Assistant Commissioner Wurst told reporters on Tuesday.
“The male behaved quite aggressively and was placed on the ground by those police officers.
“He was later identified as losing consciousness.”
Assistant Commissioner Wurst said that Paramedics of St. John Ambulance arrived and brought the man to Alice Springs Hospital, where he was declared dead shortly after 2.20 pm.
Detectives of the most important crime part of the NT police have traveled to Alice Springs to investigate.
A report will be drawn up for the coroner.
The police handle the incident as a death in custody, where a person died while being held by law enforcement, or while they were in custody of a correction facility.
They include killing in prisons or police stations, during police transfers and in operations such as police activities.
The most recent high-profile death in custody is the 2019 Police Shooting of 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja-Man Kumanjayi Walker during a bounded arrest in Yuendumu, about 300 kilometers northwest of Alice Springs.
The former NT police officer who fired the fatal shot, Zachary Rolfe, was not found guilty of all charges in 2022.
The long -awaited coroner of the coroner in the death of Mr. Walker will be handed out in Yuendumu on 10 June.
Twenty people have so far died in custody this year in Australia, eight of them First Nations -people, according to data from the National Deaths in Custody program.
Data shows that 593 indigenous population since the 1991 Royal Commission has died of the indigenous deaths in the detention.
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