Sigh of relief greeted the verdict for Derek Chauvin, the police officer who murdered George Floyd. The case famously hinged on a video that would make even the most hardened among us wince.
But while that video went around the world, advocates both in the US and Australia remain concerned by what happens to black people when the cameras are not rolling.
A 45-year-old Indigenous inmate at Perth's Casuarina prison died in hospital last month, the fifth Indigenous death in custody since the beginning of March.
The recent wave of fatalities prompted Indigenous senator Pat Dodson to warn another royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody could be needed unless there were major efforts to address the national scourge.
More than 450 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in custody since the release of the 1991 landmark royal commission report.
That report arrived 30 years ago this month.
Indigenous leaders are demanding more action to fix the shameful statistics.
Logic dictates that there must be a reason for over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prison populations, if not in death in custody statistics. While Indigenous Australians do not die disproportionately in prison as a percentage of the prison population, as a portion of the Australian population they are significantly over-represented.
It should not take a George Floyd tragedy for Australia to act upon the inequities and systemic problems within its systems.
Reforming systems and processes is likely to help prevent tragedies for inmates regardless of race.
For Australia, the George Floyd case shows why such problems should be pre-emptively fixed.
Waiting for the cameras is both unnecessary and callous.