 Police raids and behaviour following the community riot were found to have breached the "Racial Discrimination Act 1975", with a record class action settlement of million awarded to victims in May 2018.Two legal questions arose from the death; firstly, whether the taking into custody of Mulrunji was lawful, and secondly, whether the injuries that led to his death were illegally caused by the arresting officer.Politically, this event raised questions relating to the federal government's 1987–1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and whether its recommendations to prevent deaths in custody had been implemented by the government.