For Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, a late-night phone call about another Aboriginal man being shot and killed by police was the final straw.
Aubrey Donahue, 27, died after being shot four times by police, who say he advanced on officers while armed with a knife in Mareeba, west of Cairns, on Saturday.
Coroner Terry Ryan will hold an inquest into the shooting, but police have already revealed there is no close-range footage of the incident.
On Wednesday, Prof Smallwood resigned from the Queensland Police Service First Nations advisory group.
“Half an hour after the shooting happened, I got a call from a family member describing how four bullets were put in the young man’s abdomen,” she told AAP….