RIOTERS in an Aboriginal ghetto of Sydney pelted police with petrol bombs and bricks, leaving 40 officers injured, after a nine-hour street battle sparked by allegations that police chased a local teenager to his death.

A young Aborigine dies. His family and friends bitterly blame police and within hours gasoline bombs and rocks rain down on a Sydney ghetto. Cars and a train station are torched.

Rioters in an Aboriginal ghetto of Sydney pelted police with petrol bombs and bricks, leaving 40 officers injured, after a nine-hour street battle sparked by allegations that police chased a local teenager to his death.