Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has fled a Melbourne café after being confronted by a woman who asked him when he was going to crack down on Sudanese crime.
The woman, who goes by Daisynkim on Instagram, shared footage of herself asking Mr Carroll about the city’s African crime crisis after spotting him at Port Melbourne’s PM’s Café on Wednesday.
“What are you going to do about all these Sudanese? Are you gonna straighten them all up or what?” a woman asks.
“Are you going to deport them? You deport Kiwis. You’re not going to do anything? You’re not going to make us safer in Melbourne? Got nothing to say, hey? Hopefully they go to your house one day and then maybe you’ll change your mind.”
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Mr Carroll, who was surrounded by security and accompanied by Albert Park MP Nina Taylor, did not answer any of the questions, and immediately left when the woman started addressing him.
The confrontation came after a report found that South Sudanese youths were 95 times more likely to be in custody than their non-South Sudanese peers, and made up 22% of the youth detention population.
Melbourne has been ravaged by African gang violence for almost two decades, beginning when former Liberal immigration minister Amanda Vanstone brought in 10,000 Sudanese refugees in 2007.
The crime wave sparked community anger, but in 2018 Victoria Police and the left-wing corporate media responded by denying that African gangs existed and stopped releasing the statistics on the nationality of offenders.
Earlier this year police admitted there were dozens of gangs with thousands of members after a series of shocking alleged African gang murders, machete attacks and shootings, and this week the Monash Freeway was shut down while tactical police arrested six alleged African home invaders.
But the report stated that the over-representation of South Sudanese youths in custody was due to “key structural drivers” including “forced displacement, trauma, intergenerational disruption, racism, economic hardship and barriers to citizenship”.
“These are compounded by systemic bias and discrimination in policing, schools and other service systems,” the report stated.
A section of the report also claimed that young South Sudanese people were being “groomed” and “exploited” by organised criminals.
Header image: Left, right, Mr Carroll being confronted (Daisynkim).
