Australian Police Officers Ambushed in the Walsh Street Massacre

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  • Опубліковано 22 лис 2024

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  • @Hannah-ks4mi
    @Hannah-ks4mi 4 місяці тому +79

    I was a registered nurse working at the Alfred Hospital when this terrible attack took place. I was on an early shift starting at 0700 am and as soon as I got to the nurses station I was told about it. I was horrified and truly saddened when I heard and I followed the case very closely. RIP Damien and Steven and peace to your families. ❤

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      So sorry to hear this!

    • @legoofmyleg8856
      @legoofmyleg8856 4 місяці тому

      Purely based on the fact that you have written ‘0700 am’, I’m assuming you are another UA-cam comments liar who is just out looking for attention. I’m happy to be proven wrong 🙂

    • @LukeJohnson-yd2qo
      @LukeJohnson-yd2qo 3 місяці тому +3

      I'm not 😅

    • @Big_Red_Wade
      @Big_Red_Wade 3 місяці тому +1

      @@LukeJohnson-yd2qo 🤣🤣🤣 tell us how you really feel hahahahaha

    • @LukeJohnson-yd2qo
      @LukeJohnson-yd2qo 3 місяці тому

      @Big_Red_Wade How could I feel sorry both parties wanted blood. The jury got it right seen straight through the corruption. Yes, it was sad that lives got lost. Cops were taking their best witness on yacht cruises fair dinkum.

  • @BillSaltbush
    @BillSaltbush 4 місяці тому +16

    It was a turning point which brought focus upon the injustice of the police superannuation fund also. These two boys contributed into that fund exactly the same as every other member, but their families were denied a payment as a consequence of their passing. Detective Inspector John Noonan, who featured in this, was instrumental in having that disgraceful situation turned around. Members today, are the beneficiaries of that turnaround.

  • @africanpagan6338
    @africanpagan6338 4 місяці тому +13

    so the police shot horton then get wendy killed, did any police get charged with negligence?

  • @mikaelb7735
    @mikaelb7735 3 місяці тому +14

    AWFUL! But what happened to the police who shot Jensen in the car?

    • @alexf9381
      @alexf9381 3 місяці тому +7

      It's still up for conjecture what happened there. A gun was found in the car by Jensens feet and the armed robbery squad claimed that's why they shot him as he was pointing it at them but many people believe it was planted there after the shooting by them. From what I remember reading, a couple of years after the shooting, the armed robbery squad members who did that shooting were arrested by detectives. I think it was two or three of them. But they ended up walking in the end. They were either found not guilty or the charges were eventually dropped. In my view, the Jensen shooting was definitely a purposeful killing and they wanted him dead. The armed robbery squad at this point basically saw themselves as those old time bounty hunters, and didn't care if they captured their target dead or alive.

  • @carltongirl95
    @carltongirl95 4 місяці тому +28

    Oh I remember these two murders I remember thinking how young Damien and Steven were 😪 I wonder how that woman who changed her story in court sleep's at night...I hope she suffers nightmares constantly RIP Damien and Steven 😢 💜

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      Heartbreaking

    • @carltongirl95
      @carltongirl95 4 місяці тому +1

      @@TheTrueCrimeChannel yes it definitely was 😪

    • @denisegore1884
      @denisegore1884 4 місяці тому

      If you listen to the podcasts about Walsh Street, you'll understand what kind of a woman she is.

    • @MrWhitmen1981
      @MrWhitmen1981 3 місяці тому

      She probably doesn’t care, given how Victorian police are seen post lockdowns now.

    • @nikitaaustin5186
      @nikitaaustin5186 3 місяці тому

      Probably well cause she,s a strong woman

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    Evil every day needs to stop

  • @friesegroup
    @friesegroup Місяць тому

    Animal kingdom (the movie not the show) actually depicts this shooting really well and how rampant (and corrupt) the armed robbery unit was!

  • @David-d4k9k
    @David-d4k9k 3 місяці тому +3

    We can’t even be respectful enough to call them police officers. We don’t refer to journalists as hacks, doctors as quacks, or teachers as chalkies.

  • @noelwallace5257
    @noelwallace5257 4 місяці тому +12

    So let me get this straight….because she wouldn’t talk, Plod raided her home multiple times, set her up with a fight, kidnapped her and drugged her, then all of a sudden she’s a song bird🤔🤷‍♂️ got it👌🏼
    Then when she found out she ditched your trial.🙄

  • @grahamwatts8836
    @grahamwatts8836 4 місяці тому +33

    Incredibly cowardly act, ambushing two junior police officers at a routine call.

    • @Tonymarony5113
      @Tonymarony5113 4 місяці тому

      Yes it is, the problem is so many police go around flexing their muscle bullying people. Unfortunately, this sort of behaviour reflects onto the good police as well. Here in Adelaide, the vast majority of people had a reasonably good opinion of the police 20 years ago. Now, most people hate them. They are thugs armed to the teeth. To make matters worse they seem unwilling to put much if any effort into actual crime. But have all the time and resources in the world to fuck with people driving to and from work.

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      100%

    • @purplecoffee3620
      @purplecoffee3620 4 місяці тому +8

      Yeah, let's act like they didn't sign up to have their lives in danger

    • @ashleygrima8218
      @ashleygrima8218 3 місяці тому +5

      They were cops and back then they killed

    • @ashleygrima8218
      @ashleygrima8218 3 місяці тому +11

      Police were the cowards

  • @JohnDuPreez-r4z
    @JohnDuPreez-r4z 4 місяці тому +25

    Come live in South Africa.....not in fancy Euro bought or rented apartments but in a normal suburb or on a farm and you will realise that this wouldnt even make the 6 th page of the newspapers in our country.

    • @PaulTavra
      @PaulTavra 4 місяці тому +6

      It’s Australia not Europe.

    • @barryduff5058
      @barryduff5058 3 місяці тому +1

      I believe you.
      Has it mostly happened since the Mandela years finished

    • @PoetofHateSpeech
      @PoetofHateSpeech 2 місяці тому

      ​@@barryduff5058Started*

    • @PoetofHateSpeech
      @PoetofHateSpeech 2 місяці тому +1

      What do you expect with so many basketball Americans?...
      It was a good nation before 1993

    • @artgarfunkelart2094
      @artgarfunkelart2094 Місяць тому +1

      This an an Australian story not African your on acid

  • @chrisrasku2261
    @chrisrasku2261 3 місяці тому +1

    Where was the outrage by the cops and the people when the cops shot a man in the back of the head in his car?

  • @kellysheridan3149
    @kellysheridan3149 4 місяці тому +9

    This was horrific. I am Australian. I remember this case very sad

  • @waynereardon
    @waynereardon 4 місяці тому +8

    Just a shocking day in Victorian history. I go down to 222 Walsh St on October 12 every 5 years and tape up a bunch of flowers with a printout of the original plaque that used to be in Walsh St. Apparently the original brass plaque was removed by residents. I don't really blame them. It's not something you'd want to be reminded of every day.

  • @kellysheridan3149
    @kellysheridan3149 4 місяці тому +12

    The poor families of the victims ❤

  • @quasar8898
    @quasar8898 3 місяці тому +13

    Police- If a 'witness's' story keeps changing, just keep questioning them until your hear what you want.

  • @ChristopherBlackman-xc2fc
    @ChristopherBlackman-xc2fc 4 місяці тому +12

    Very sad!

  • @BlairSauer
    @BlairSauer 4 місяці тому +9

    No doubt that the walsh street murders would've been one of the worst crimes ever to be perpetrated against police in Australian history and the history of Victoria. Only two and a bit years before that was the awful Russell Street bombing which would claim the life of young female police officer, Angela Taylor. Two heinous crimes perpetrated against police that were two years apart from each other. Both cold blooded. Unforgivable. Unforgettable. No police officer should ever go to work and then to not come home. Those two young officers deserved better. Unfortunately justice didn't prevail. The star witness should've been prevented from going back and talking to her criminal husband and his associates about the police interrogation.

  • @karenglenn6707
    @karenglenn6707 4 місяці тому +21

    I worked at Victoria Police HQ in William St Melbourne when this occurred. The whole ten floors were so quiet that day, no laughing and joking around. We were all just devastated at what these innocent young men had gone through. Those scum didn’t care who turned up that night, they just wanted to murder police officers. And they used their own weapons against them. Still makes me sick to my stomach.

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      Oh wow

    • @jamesdunn4316
      @jamesdunn4316 3 місяці тому +1

      how many people did the police end up killing??

    • @markprinsloo4258
      @markprinsloo4258 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@jamesdunn4316 Too few I think.

    • @madspartan
      @madspartan Місяць тому +1

      Was it common knowledge at police h.q. that day that the gun was planted? Or did only a hand full know?

  • @pspa5502
    @pspa5502 3 місяці тому +1

    Dave Riley was seen in the area he was wearing a helmet.

  • @johnryan2193
    @johnryan2193 4 місяці тому +34

    Sounds like the cops were as bad as the robbers.

    • @nm628679c
      @nm628679c 4 місяці тому +8

      ...and you were inside for what, exactly?🤡😡

    • @Tonymarony5113
      @Tonymarony5113 4 місяці тому

      ​@nm628679c I've never been to jail, and some police are criminals. Sometimes, they are even convicted of crimes like murder. But of course most crimes committed by police are never investigated.

    • @Goodgirl69877
      @Goodgirl69877 4 місяці тому

      They were that's why the armed robbery squad was disbanded

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +3

      Interesting...

    • @TomTom-j8x
      @TomTom-j8x 18 днів тому

      ​So anyone who has criticism of vicpole only has that criticism because they've been previously locked up, that's clearly not true, is that your position, lol, get a grip. @@nm628679c

  • @fionabryant7923
    @fionabryant7923 4 місяці тому +13

    This is a very dodgy story all round..fault on both sides

  • @PaulinAsia_
    @PaulinAsia_ 3 місяці тому

    The murders of Tynan and Eyre was absolutely horrific and I believe they arrested the actual murderers who killed them. Shockingly they were not convicted. However, the sanitised version of the Houghton killing is inconsistent with the evidence and the statement of the female witness who was with Houghton when he was killed. It was an execution, as was the killing of Abdullah. Both were violent criminals, and violent criminals must be punished severely for their crimes, but it needs to be done, and seen to be done, lawfully. Police should not be hit squads, they need to uphold the law, legally. My sympathy lies completely with the two young constables and their devastated families. May they rest in peace and I hope their families have found peace and comfort in their lives.

  • @mito88
    @mito88 3 місяці тому +1

    they found out

  • @simplesimon4717
    @simplesimon4717 3 місяці тому +2

    If you want a result for walsh Street, have a look at what happened the day before!

  • @ashleygrima8218
    @ashleygrima8218 3 місяці тому +18

    People forget how dangerous the police were back then actually not much has changed

    • @jaredburgess8381
      @jaredburgess8381 3 місяці тому

      This is absolutely true! No bodycams. Police were an absolute law into themselves. Prahran and St Kilda cops were as dodgy as anything.
      This video really brushes over a lot of the true issues in this story.

    • @stephenhardy778
      @stephenhardy778 3 місяці тому

      Are you ok.

    • @ashleygrima8218
      @ashleygrima8218 3 місяці тому

      @@stephenhardy778 yeah why

    • @PoetofHateSpeech
      @PoetofHateSpeech 2 місяці тому

      Look at UK police now. Even worse

  • @fionabryant7923
    @fionabryant7923 4 місяці тому +19

    Since when is it normal for cops to fire on a fleeing suspect?

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +2

      Good question

    • @jase_drifter
      @jase_drifter 4 місяці тому +8

      yeah makes you wonder about that dont it, the police back then wernt squeeky clean as they say.

    • @paulorocky
      @paulorocky 4 місяці тому +2

      Victoria Police had used American methods to train officers in the use of firearms.

    • @simplesimon4717
      @simplesimon4717 3 місяці тому +2

      They still are and have never been!​@jase_drifter

    • @nickd1930
      @nickd1930 3 місяці тому +1

      That's not all that was claimed in the official report. The official report states he had a large gun in his hand and was pointing it at the armed robbery squad members while trying to drive through them as they had boxed his car in and trapped him so he couldn't drive off. So the official claim is thats why they shot him. He pointed a gun at them. Now, to be fair, that's their official report. A gun was indeed found at his feet, but it is claimed that it was all a ruse and the gun was planted there after the shooting to justify them shooting him. A number of the armed robbery squad who pulled their triggers were arrested for this shooting a few years later by detectives. They were set free eventually though, but many still think they were guilty.

  • @ColinBuckley-k4v
    @ColinBuckley-k4v 4 місяці тому +9

    Some sad vitriolic nay sayers below here. Two very young Aussie boys arrived at work that morning to do their job, they didn't get to go home after their shift. Guess your all sooo happy they were not your sons!!

  • @madspartan
    @madspartan Місяць тому

    If they didn’t plant the gun would those two innocent police have died? Asking for a friend

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    Sad mate

  • @andrewforbes146
    @andrewforbes146 3 місяці тому

    You know im so sick of hearing about this really i am

    • @karenglenn6707
      @karenglenn6707 2 місяці тому +1

      @@andrewforbes146 I bet you wouldn’t be if one of those officers was your son! What a charming person you are 🤮

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    What is d24 mean

  • @MrBrentles
    @MrBrentles 3 місяці тому

    Reminds me of the movie Animal Kingdom

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    What happened

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    Sad news

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    Are police officers criminal by law

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 26 днів тому

    I think victor was killed by police

  • @keithdouglas8707
    @keithdouglas8707 4 місяці тому +4

    The vic police should have all been charged with negligence

  • @evilstorm5954
    @evilstorm5954 3 місяці тому +3

    Not guilty IS innocent. I don’t believe they were innocent, but a jury made the decision.

    • @DeadManSinging1
      @DeadManSinging1 3 місяці тому +3

      Not guilty does not mean innocent. It means they did not have enough evidence to find them guilty. An acquittal is innocent.

    • @evilstorm5954
      @evilstorm5954 3 місяці тому

      @@DeadManSinging1 They can’t be retried, and a jury can only deliver 2 verdicts- Guilty or Not Guilty.

    • @michaelevans205
      @michaelevans205 3 місяці тому

      Not guilty simply means 'we can't prove to the required standard that you did it'.
      It is not the same as 'innocent'.

    • @PoetofHateSpeech
      @PoetofHateSpeech 2 місяці тому

      ​@evilstorm5954 Yes, they can. Australia doesn't have double jeopardy

    • @evilstorm5954
      @evilstorm5954 2 місяці тому

      @@PoetofHateSpeech yes we do, can’t be retried for a crime after being found not guilty here. Look it up.

  • @jiwik731
    @jiwik731 4 місяці тому +9

    Police took out some trash as they should do and people protested?

    • @TheTrueCrimeChannel
      @TheTrueCrimeChannel  4 місяці тому +1

      Interesting point of view

    • @sultanabran1
      @sultanabran1 4 місяці тому +3

      @@TheTrueCrimeChannel It was a different time. you have to speak the language of your adversary to resolve a conflict or to get through to them. crooks don't often listen to reason or diplomacy. so you have to speak a language they understand.

    • @GaZonk100
      @GaZonk100 4 місяці тому

      well, yee because crims are 'the real victims' (of society...or something)

  • @markysumm72
    @markysumm72 4 місяці тому +5

    2 deaths does not constitute a massacre. Stop with the tabloid overdramatics.

  • @benjijarman
    @benjijarman 4 місяці тому +10

    Not really a massacre though was it.

  • @Miketheneck
    @Miketheneck 4 місяці тому +1

    💙

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 3 місяці тому

    You no bed's

  • @chezzachezza7325
    @chezzachezza7325 3 місяці тому

    My specialist worked here as a junior Dr he said it was horrific worst of all i grew up with Tony couldn't believe it. Rip officers

  • @johnkoldy
    @johnkoldy 4 місяці тому +4

    It always shows favouritism the videos more often than not when in reality it is just man and what ever created him/her that is the problem more likely than not?Justice problem gone unrecognised or other(s) ETC. ETC.

  • @paulmahy
    @paulmahy День тому

    Anyone else think the jacks knobbled pierce?

  • @antonaleksova7877
    @antonaleksova7877 3 місяці тому +1

    Court is catch it $$$$$087⁶54>$'