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Sky News host Rita Panahi has called out the “despicable behaviour” captured on camera showing a wombat being tortured and killed by an off-duty police officer.

South Australia Police say they have launched an investigation into the incident and have promised to take appropriate action, but Ms Panahi has asked “what is taking them so long”. “There is clear footage of their officer committing an act of animal cruelty while laughing,” she said. “He has no business being in any police force or any position of authority.

” The officer in question, Waylon Johncock, reportedly helps non-Indigenous officers understand the social and cultural issues within the Indigenous community, but Ms Panahi said suggestions that his actions should therefore be viewed in a different light “are utterly absurd and an insult to Indigenous Australians”. She noted that protected and even endangered animals can be killed under the Native Title Act, under laws that “desperately need to be revised”.

 

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