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Four Shootings One Week NSW and QLD. · The Slippery Slope

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  Get my. Street ahead, Get my.
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  Head in the game. With the.
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  Red light. On I'm.
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  Just waiting for the change. Hi, Jay Fallon and thank you for
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  listening. So this week in March, I'm
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  recording this on the 7th of March 2026.
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  The week has just gone by. We have had several shootings,
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  several shootings, police shooting civilians in two of our
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  great states, Queensland, they shot two people.
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  NSW shot two people as well. Three of these shootings all
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  happened on one day, March the 3rd.
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  So just quickly on the 2 Queensland ones first.
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  So on March the 3rd, you've got the police shooting incident in
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  Tingalpa involved a 21 year old man who was shot by officers
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  after threatening them with a knife during a welfare cheque,
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  very important welfare cheque. So they've gone to check on his
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  welfare bang end up being shot. The man died at the scene.
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  Senior constable sustained a minor graze to the ear.
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  When they say a minor graze to the ear, as in he was shot a
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  minor graze by a bullet, it wasn't like a minor graze
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  because he tripped and grazed his ear.
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  So, you know, they can't leave a little bit of that out anyway.
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  So he was, he, he got grazed by the bullet from his partner.
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  So the whole laser rule has gone way out the window.
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  So the incident is under investigation by those two
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  great, great departments in the Queensland Government Ethical
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  Standards Command and the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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  Great. Anyway, so he had another one on
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  the March the 4th 2026 a separate incident involved a 31
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  year old man shot by police after fleeing a car crash.
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  This this numpty seems like he was trying to get shot and it
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  might have been a little bit of a maybe just putting it out
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  there. Maybe this was a bit of a plan
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  of, you know, suicide by cop, which is ridiculous because you
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  just, you got to feel sorry for these police officers because
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  you know, they're just trying to they, they think they're going
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  to a car crash next minute. All mates pulling the gun
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  anyway. So the man was shot but later
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  taken to the hospital in stable condition.
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  This incident is also under investigation by those two great
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  and wonderful command units, ethical stands standards command
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  with oversight from the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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  So what could go wrong? It goes on to say that these
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  incidents highlight the ongoing challenges and complexities
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  faced by police. Yes, yes, yes.
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  OK, so on March the 3rd, let's look at these three shootings
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  that all happened on the one day.
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  So one of these happened in Queensland March the 3rd and
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  then two on in New South Wales. So you've got this man who was
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  wielding a knife. He was fatally shot by
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  Queensland police officers in on the third.
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  So the latest report was saying that they were there.
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  Queensland Police responded to a welfare cheque.
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  They were requested to go to a welfare cheque in Thurston St in
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  Tingalpa. 10:30 AM. Officers at the scene were
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  threatened by the man. That's what they're saying,
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  Threatened by the man, However he was shot after making
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  continued threats at police. Medical assistance was
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  immediately rendered, however the man died at the scene.
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  Queensland Police Union president Shane Pryor told
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  reporters the intending officers had attempted to subdue the man
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  with a Taser before opening fire.
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  I, I don't think Taser's, not in any way while trying, while
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  trying to detain that person, that male person has lunged, OK,
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  they say it, he has lunged at police with a knife.
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  The entire incident has been caught on body worn camera and
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  I'm confident on the briefing I've received today that all
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  police are justified, authorised by law in the actions that they
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  took. OK.
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  I mean, one of them did, you know, graze the other one with
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  the bullet, with one of the bullets.
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  But yeah, everything's kosher. Shane Price says these officers
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  were confronted with an extraordinary dangerous
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  situation and they should be very proud in the way that they
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  responded. Deeper sympathies go to the
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  family of the male person that is deceased today because
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  someone was called around to his house to go and check on him
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  because people were concerned for his welfare and we shot him.
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  Crikey. Obviously.
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  Acting Chief Superintendent Heath McQueen similarly
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  justified the officer's actions. So then you've got this incident
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  in two incidents in New in New South Wales.
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  The first incident occurred at a unit block on Honeysuckle Drive
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  in Newcastle about 8:30 AM. Northern Operations Support
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  Group and Northern Region Domestic Violence High Risk
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  Offender team attended the property to arrest a man wanted
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  on fire. Outstanding arrest warrants.
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  When officers forced entry into the unit, 36 year old man
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  confronted them with a knife. 2 Tasers were deployed, however
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  both were ineffective against the man, NSW Police said in a
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  statement. The man allegedly continued
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  threatening officers with the knife before a police officer
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  discharged A firearm, shooting the man.
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  Got to make you OK. The 36 year old man sustained A
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  gunshot wound to his shoulder. Yeah, OK.
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  So it I'd love to see the footage on this.
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  He's continuing threatening the police officer discharged.
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  OK. The man was taken to John Hunter
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  Hospital. OK, so officers then there was
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  another shooting. Officers were called to a unit
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  block on Saint Neot Ave following reports an armed man
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  had entered the complex and assaulted two women with a
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  knife. The man threatened attending
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  police with the knife before an officer fatally shot him.
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  The two women were hospitalised for head and facial injuries.
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  All incidents are being investigated by the Ethical
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  Standards Commission. OK, look, I'm not, you know, I
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  wasn't there. I'm not going to say anything
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  about whatever the actions these officers took in the heat of the
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  in the heat of the moment, this is how it goes.
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  You pull a knife, we all know this is what's going to happen.
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  However, I firmly believe police, there's a reason why,
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  especially Queensland police, there's a reason why we have
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  more shootings, more police shooting civilians than ever
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  before. And Queensland police shoot more
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  civilians than the last couple of years.
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  Every state in some in some years has been every state
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  combined, they have shot more people than every state
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  combined. There's a reason why we have so
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  many reports of, hey, can you go around do a welfare cheque and
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  then the person ends up getting shot and killed, the person
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  you're supposed to be checking on because supposedly someone is
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  concerned for their welfare. Someone knows that they're,
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  they're not in the right state of mind.
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  Can I suggest maybe, maybe sending people around who are
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  not trained to deal with mental health, people who are suffering
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  a mental health episode, who are not trained, who cannot handle
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  pressure, cannot handle stressful situations.
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  And then you go and arm them with guns, Tasers, spray, all
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  that jargon, arm them with all these things, and then you send
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  them around for a welfare cheque.
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  The person who's already having a mental health episode then
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  feels threatened, feels caged in, doesn't want to talk to
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  them, has a knife out. He's making threats to himself.
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  I mean, they were called around, I believe I'd read there that
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  they were called around because he'd be making threats to harm
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  himself. So instead all that happens is
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  someone else comes around and harms him and ends it all.
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  Are we really doing this the right way?
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  Are police doing this the right way?
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  And why aren't they looking at other options?
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  Why there have been so many shootings over the last couple
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  of years where police go around to do welfare cheques and that
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  person gets shot, person gets killed and still nothing has
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  changed. Nothing has changed.
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  As I said before, if nothing changes, then nothing changes.
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  If you continue to get called to people, to situations, jobs
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  where people are have having a mental health breakdown and you
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  continue to just do the same thing, take the same action,
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  just send police around to deal with the same situation and then
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  you continue to have police shooting people who are having a
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  mental breakdown, you can't be surprised.
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  You shouldn't be surprised. Things need to change.
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  Something needs to change. Shane Pryor, you need to be
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  pushing change, not just standing up there backing
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  officers, saying no, no, everything's all right,
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  everything's all good. You know, forget about the fact
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  that one of the officers shot the other officer, you know, hit
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  him, hit his ear. It's just a graze, whatever.
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  Forget about all that. You know, it might suggest that
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  maybe maybe someone wasn't handling A stressful situation
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  properly and you know, maybe they shouldn't have been in that
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  stressful situation. But anyway, things need to
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  change. Our police services, our police
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  forces around Australia need to change the way they do business.
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  You can't just continue to go to these jobs where people are
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  called because they're having a mental health issue.
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  You call to these jobs and then, oh, OK, they had a knife.
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  You have to change tactics. You, the police have to change
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  mental health. These people, they're not going
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  to change some. They're the ones in crisis.
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  The ones that can change are the police forces, the police
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  services in our nation. They're the ones that need to
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  change their tactics. They cannot keep doing the same
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  thing and expecting a different outcome.
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  But will anything ever actually change?
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  Well, you know, we're sending around Ethical Standards Command
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  in the Crime and Corruption Commission to investigate this.
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  And we are sure that they will back police and nothing will
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  have been found negligent on police's behalf.
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  This is all just my opinion. Please let me know what you
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  think. I believe they need to change
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  tactics. They need to look at themselves
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  and think what can they do better?
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  Especially Queensland Bliss saw my opinion.
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  I'm Jeff Fallon, thanks for listening.
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  They. Just feel the desire they will
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  take me higher. I'm on fire because nothing's
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  gonna bring me. Down.
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  Nothing's going to hold me down and nothing's going to stop me
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  now, and no one deals to be done and I'm not going to stand on me
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  and nothing's going to stop me now and nothing's going to hold
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  me down. Got my eye on the eyes, got my
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  side on the ground it seems no sight, nothing 's going to.
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  Nothing's going to stop me now. Nothing's going to hold me down.
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  I got my eye and the pride's going to settle down.