Eddie Cameron was 23 when he was arrested, charged with burglary and placed in a solitary cell in Geraldton, Western Australia, one night last July. A few hours later he was found dead, hanging by his own bootlaces. But the death of Eddie Cameron, an Aborigine who was a local football hero and the son of a political activist, sparked a riot by 300 of Australia's native sons.
The reason: Cameron was just one of at least 103 Aborigines to die while in police custody or prison since 1980. Says criminologist David Biles of the shockingly high death toll: "An Aboriginal...
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