The Hock said:
Rebaljo, I just always gotta read your posts...
When I lived in Salt Lake the Tongans were well known for being violent at the drop of a hat. Many of them even admitted it was part of their culture.
The Hock - Tongan "culture", eh? That's a bloody laugh...
Right on cue, I can provide a news story from last night which showcases the fruits of Australia's "skills based" immigration policy. In this episode we have a fat Samoan knifed to death by a currently-unidentifiedAfrican at Bankstown railway station (southwestern Sydney - one of the worstholes imagineable. The rats all left once the Asian "restauranteurs" moved in...).
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Teen stabbed to death in train station brawl
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A 16-year-old boy who died after he was stabbed and then kicked on to railway tracks at a Sydney station was known to police, and so is the man suspected of killing him.
Brandon Faananu Siaa, also known as Brandon Nunu Asiata, was on his way home from TAFE when a fight broke out at Bankstown train station about 6.50pm yesterday.
Paramedics moved him back on to the platform and tried to revive him, but he died at the station.
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A 22-year-old man who suffered stab wounds to his head and body in the brawl was taken in a serious condition to hospital, where he remained under police guard this morning.
Superintendent Dave Eardley told Fairfax Radio Network the man was the chief suspect.
Superintendent Eardley said the stabbing happened after a dispute between Brandon, of Samoan origin, and the 22-year-old man, who is of African origin, and was not the result of a brawl involving other people.
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Superintendent Eardley told Macquarie Radio that high-quality CCTV footage showed the 22-year-old was carrying the knife used in the attack.
Police recovered the knife and are confident only one weapon was used.
Superintendent Eardley said a number of witness accounts supported what was shown in the CCTV footage.
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Brandon and the 22-year-old were both known to police as individuals but Superintendent Eardley was not sure if they knew each other.
Superintendent Eardley could not say if the fight was racially motivated or gang related.
"It [Bankstown] is such a melting pot of all different cultures, so it is not unusual to have people other than Caucasians involved," he said
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"I can say that these two people are known to us, in that we have had cause to speak to these people in our movements, in the way we patrol this particular area," he added.
A 15-year-old boy, reported to be Brandon's brother, was stabbed in the leg and was in still in hospital this morning.
William Lee, the owner of a newsagency inside the train station, said he did not hear any shouting or fighting but saw paramedics and police run past his store just before closing, at 7pm.
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"When I go homeI looked atthe fence and one person was lying on the platform and was covered [in a white cloth]," he said.
Mr Lee said police had to evacuate the platform as people poured off peak hour trains.
A woman working in the cafe next door to the station said she saw a police officer trying to save Brandon's life.
"We were cleaning but we had a peek through the fence and one of the police was trying to revive the boy but he couldn't," the woman, who did not give her name, said.
Relatives of the teenager came to the station sometime later.
The woman said she was told Brandon's brother was accompanied by an aunt, as their mother lives overseas.
This morning the station was operating as normal, commuters walking straight down the stairs and over the area of platform where the teenager died.
Teenagers who knew Brandon gathered outside the station this morning.
Most wore red items of clothing. Two teenage girls, who asked not to be named, said they had been told to "wear their colours" today.
Many in the group were emotional and a few appeared agitated.
By 9am, six police officers were patrolling the station and asking groups of youths wearing red to "move on".
"I know tensions are high ... but get on your buses and move on," one officer told a group of seven teenagers, who were mostly dressed in school uniforms with accents of red.
A Facebook page dedicated to Brandon had attracted more than 2000 followers this morning.
"How can they do such [a] thing to such a soft and quiet boy. Brandon u are still in hearts," Tia Mauigoa Fepuleai wrote.
Many others changed their profile pictures to a photograph of him.
Some of his friends are organising a meet-up in Bankstown tonight and are planning to wear red in his honour.
Source:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/teen-stabbed-to-death-in-train-station-brawl-20110526-1f4tl.html
Here is the perforated "victim":
The clothing and pose are strangely familiar, are they not?