Extra police officers have been deployed to Doomadgee, Aurukun and Hopevale after a spate of unrelated street riots involving hundreds of locals wielding spears, rocks, and even a shotgun in recent days.
DOOMADGEE police station in far north Queensland has been surrounded by angry residents and pelted with rocks as racial tensions build.
Extra police officers have been deployed to Doomadgee, Aurukun and Hope Vale after a spate of unrelated street riots involving hundreds of locals wielding spears, rocks, and even a shotgun in recent days.
Greg McLean, the mayor of Hope Vale, north of Cooktown, has faced court after he was allegedly found holding a kangaroo hunting spear in a street fight between rival tribal clans last night.
He has been bailed to reappear on charges of obstruct police, affray and assault after rioters allegedly turned on police.
Outside court, Mr McLean said he had tried to be a "peacemaker" and rather than calming tensions, police were inflaming frictions in long-standing blood feuds.
In Doomadgee, hundreds of angry residents plan to march on the police station tomorrow in retaliation for alleged police brutality and "highly inflammatory" behaviour by police.
Riot squad police have been flown to the Gulf township after a local allegedly hit a female police officer in the face with a torch and broke her nose on the weekend.
Locals stormed the station after the arrest of the 52-year-old man and smashed in the doors. Two men have since been arrested for wilful damage to police property.
Aboriginal activist Murrandoo Yanner said Doomadgee was a "powder keg".
He claims police riot squads have since been busting into homes and in retaliation hundreds are going to march on Doomadgee police station tomorrow.
"They've been invaded by the goon squad. It is just like after the Palm Island riots," he said.
It is understood the rally ringleader is the brother of Mulrunji Doomadgee, who died in a Palm Island police cell in 2004.
Mr Yanner said no-one was being incited to "bash coppers or burn the station" but locals had to hold police behaviour to account.
He said it was alleged the female officer was drunk or drugged and yelling "black mother f--ers" when she tried to break up a family dispute.
Police deny the allegations and are negotiating with family leaders to appeal for calm.
Meanwhile, Aurukun remains in lockdown as police hunt a gunman who fired a volley of shots from a shotgun during a 200-strong street fight in the Western Cape York community yesterday.
The hospital, school and shops have been barricaded as armed men roam the streets making death threats in an ongoing tribal war.
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