Northern Territory police aren’t investigating a fight at a mall outside Darwin where a security guard punched an indigenous man to the ground.
Video posted to social media on Saturday shows two Wilson Security guards confronting a group of indigenous shirtless men at the Palmerston Shopping Centre car park.
One guard and a man take swings at each other, and after being struck in the face, the man falls to the pavement.
He remains motionless for almost two minutes before police arrive on segways and move the group away.
A shocking video shows the moment a security guard knocked a man to the ground in front of horrified shoppers
‘He’s not even moving… call an ambulance,’ the person filming says.
‘They’re always picking on blackfellas man.’
A woman is heard saying: ‘This security guard wanna settle down.’
Another adds: ‘He’s just doing his job.’
A witness wrote on Facebook that the altercation started when security guards told a group of men to move away from the shopping mall.
‘The security guard was carrying on telling them they all have to leave,’ she wrote, according to the ABC.
‘[The guards were] getting cheeky, acting tough, picking on the smallest and then the big [fellas] arced up.
‘But security shouldn’t be throwing punches and fighting, they should have been respectful.’
NT Police is reviewing the footage, but a spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that officers won’t lodge an investigation unless they receive a formal complaint.
The clip was reportedly filmed in a shopping centre car park in Palmerston, outside Darwin
Around 10 seconds in, the guard hits the man twice in the face and he is knocked off balance and hits the pavement
Last month, Chief Minister Michael Gunner said he was shocked after video emerged of a Darwin business owner hosing an elderly homeless Aboriginal man away from a footpath.
Shortly after Labor announced a suite of measures to tackle ‘anti-social itinerant behaviour’, including a funding boost for Sobering Up Shelters, the re-introduction of a Day Patrol, and more certainty to non-government organisations working with homeless Territorians.
The opposition said it was a ‘band-aid’ solution.
Country Liberals Party leader Gary Higgins has called for a summit to co-ordinate a whole-of-agency, whole-of-community approach to problem drinking and homelessness.