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Aboriginal leader raided for owning a toy gun

admin Padraic Murphy for news.com.au

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ONE of Queensland's most respected indigenous leaders is considering legal action against the state's police after he endured a midnight SWAT-style raid over a toy gun won at the Cairns Show.

The home of Richard Aken, the chairman of the Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation, was raided last month after he said police had received a report of a black man with a rifle in the boot of his car.

"I was lying in bed asleep at about 12.30am when I got a phone call and was told to come out of my house," Mr Aken said.

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