Alice Springs Aboriginal youths spit on and attack white pub patrons

Aboriginal youths spat at pub-goers and attacked them with a tree branch on a night of mayhem in Alice Springs, just days after the prime minister’s quick visit to the lawless inner city.

Shocking video from the troubled and remote Northern Territory city shows a pub on one of the main streets under siege by belligerent teenagers on Saturday night.

A pub guest who filmed the disturbing scenes described it as “the scariest night of my life”.

Alice Springs has been hit by a crime crisis in recent months, with gangs of mostly indigenous youth roaming the streets looking for trouble.

And the crackdown on alcohol sales announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a flying visit to Alice a week ago appears to have done nothing to stop the chaos.

Footage from Saturday night showed an Aboriginal girl hurling abuse through a fence at patrons as they sat drinking in a pub beer garden.

“You ugly, I’m prettier than you with my black skin, white bitch,” she yelled before mocking other customers and calling herself an “African queen.”

Another teenager appeared next to her and spat through the fence at a young man sitting at a table.

He immediately jumped up in disgust and ran towards the fence yelling at them and preparing to throw his drink as they fled, still taunting him.

“You’re a white dog, you are, ruff ruff ruff,” he yelled at her as a younger boy yelled “f**k you.”

Another video showed a young Aboriginal man aggressively confronting customers outside the pub before retreating outside where a young man was trying to defuse the situation.

Before spitting, the girl and other teens insulted customers, including calling one woman a “white b***” and other “white c**ts.”

The pub patron held out his arm in front of him for protection and shoved the first Aboriginal teenager, drawing a flurry of punches in response.

At first he just tried to block the incoming punches and push the attacker away, but it escalated into a fight after the indigenous teen challenged him to a fight and kept hitting him.

The white man quickly grabbed his opponent and brought him to the ground, but was able to recover after a friend intervened.

The fight continued until two other young Aboriginal men decided to attack him and he withdrew from the fray.

Standing next to the other two, the young black man tried to goad his opponent into continuing the fight, but this time he didn’t take the bait.

At first, the white youth just tried to block the incoming blows and push the attacker away, but it escalated into a fight after the indigenous teen challenged him to a fight and continued to hit him.

A third violent video showed a young Aboriginal man approaching the pub wielding a large tree branch with which he attempted to attack drinkers over the fence.

A tavern attendant tried to block a broom’s attacks, until the attacker tossed the branch into the beer garden and left.

Another video showed a man with an Akubra chasing indigenous youth who allegedly stole items from his ute while he was on it.

He tried to grab one of them before another young man punched him in the head from behind.

A fifth video showed an older Aboriginal man shouting incoherent and angry insults through the pub fence, without any apparent provocation.

A third violent video showed a young Aboriginal man approaching the pub wielding a large tree branch with which he was attempting to attack drinkers over the fence, prompting one to use a broom to try to block it.

A fifth video showed an older Aboriginal man shouting incoherent and angry insults through the pub fence, without any provocation.

The latest video showed a young Aboriginal man removing a rubbish bin from its stand and carrying it across the road towards the pub like a weapon.

Suddenly, a police car arrived on the scene and he and more than a dozen other youths ran before the officers could give chase.

Rachel Hale, who filmed the videos from her balcony above the pub, said it was one of the scariest nights of her life.

“Kids mocking adults and spitting on ‘white c**ts’, stealing from cars out front, very young children on the streets, disgusting violence, pack hunting and the level of hate shown towards people in line of fire will haunt me,’ she said.

“The police go out of their way to stop anyone: they run as soon as they see them. I feel sick to my stomach watching this and also having to stay here.

‘Everything has closed, the police have left, but the children remain. I didn’t get much sleep, one of the scariest nights of my life. It went on all night.

Hale said the council tried to hide the worst of the problem when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew into Alice Springs on Tuesday.

They rounded up and bused all the kids out so there was nothing to see. Shameful. Face the problem head on, don’t hide it,’ he said.

The latest video showed a young Aboriginal man removing a rubbish bin from its stand and carrying it across the road towards the pub like a weapon.

Ms Hale’s videos are among dozens of locally posted about violence and break-ins in the city in recent weeks.

Another poster described his terrifying experience when they closed shop at the Cignall tobacco store when ‘6-7 children entered the store’ and started grabbing things.

When the man yelled at them and pushed the last child away, they began to bang on the glass windows.

Crime and lawlessness in the Outback town entered the latter national spotlight with reports of up to 200 children roaming the streets at night, breaking into homes and businesses and stealing and burning cars.

Some locals say the violence escalated when alcohol bans were lifted in Indian villages miles outside the city, and residents came to Alice Springs drunk.

Alice Springs and Tennant Creek have about 25 of the Territory’s 43 urban campgrounds in their vicinity.

Cars are regularly stolen, burglarized and set on fire in Alice Springs, which means that residents cannot leave their vehicles unattended on the street.

Locals report seeing people so desperate for alcohol that they mix hand sanitizer with water or orange juice and drink it in front of children.

A map of recent properties for sale shows that locals are fed up and fear for their safety as alcohol-fueled violence escalates and even the mayor says he “can’t blame them.”

About 200 properties are for sale in the inland city, which has a population of 26,000, as some residents express fears the region will become a drop-in and drop-out city for workers.

Toni Rowan of Alice Springs Realty said residents were moving because they wanted a safe place to raise their children.

The crime was the worst he had seen since he moved to the city in the 1990s and five people a week wanted out.

I live in fear. People have threatened to burn my house down, kill my dogs, rape me. They are out of control. People come from the community and yell and yell,’ he said.

“You walk out and say, ‘can you please shut up?’ and it becomes ‘you’re a racist'”.

As youth crime rampages, Alice Springs sales data reveals 200 properties are for sale as locals pack up and leave town.

Supermarket giant Woolworths had to close the security doors at the exits of its Alice Springs store (pictured) while shoppers were still inside to try to stem violent incidents.

Mayor Matt Patterson understood why there was a mass exodus as locals couldn’t stay ‘when they were afraid to sleep at night’.

“A lot of people just say that the perception of fear is the reason they’re going: they’re fed up with being robbed, they can’t afford to keep replacing windows, they can’t keep robbing their businesses.” he said.

During a brief visit to the city last week, Albanese announced new restrictions on alcohol and pledged $48.8 million over two years for programs that address crime.

The measures implemented included a ban on the sale of alcohol to go on Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as limits on the opening hours of bottle shops.