I didn’t want to write about this. I sat with it for a couple of days first, which is about as long as I can manage before the pressure of having thoughts about something forces me to put them somewhere.

Jodi Knott. A woman in mental health crisis, off her medication, trying to get help. What she got instead was an hour of sustained, deliberate cruelty from two NSW police officers who then sent the footage around to laugh about it. The family has now asked the public to see what happened. That takes a particular kind of courage. To take the worst thing that happened to your person and hand it to strangers, because you believe the truth of it matters more than protecting yourself from having to relive it.