Jai Kalani Wright: video of Indigenous teen’s fatal collision with police car prompts family walkout of Sydney court

Published on August 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Jai Kalani Wright: video of Indigenous teen’s fatal collision with police car prompts family walkout of Sydney court

Benedict Bryant has pleaded not guilty to a charge of dangerous driving occasioning death

Harrowing footage has been aired in court of the moment an Indigenous teenager riding a trail bike crashed into a police vehicle, as a battle erupts over the relevance of an earlier collision.

Sgt Benedict Bryant, 47, was behind the wheel when Jai Kalani Wright rode the motorbike into his unmarked police vehicle in inner-city Sydney on 19 February 2022.

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