Daniel Alfred Yock

Daniel Alfred Yock (7 February 1975 – 7 November 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian dancer and amateur boxer who died shortly after being arrested by officers from the Queensland Police Service.

As an Aboriginal death in custody so soon after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Yock's death caused widespread anger and protests from the Australian Aboriginal community.

Though only earning a paltry sum, they would perform regularly at local festivals and schools.

He had been drinking with friends at Musgrave Park in South Brisbane when a police van from the West End police station began surveillance on the group of men, after which two more police vehicles arrived.

An autopsy was conducted by a Queensland Government pathologist who found Yock's death was caused by Ischaemic heart disease and the narrowing of the arteries with a significant impairment of the right coronary artery detected. Several people were injured including five protesters and at least four police officers.

Questions were raised about various issues pertaining to how the Queensland Police Service dealt with Aboriginal people, including unwarranted surveillance, racial profiling and stop and searches. It found that Yock's arrest was lawful and that the response by the Queensland Police Service was appropriate, clearing the police officers of any wrongdoing.

Premier Wayne Goss requested an apology from those who had made allegations of police brutality and called on Aboriginal leaders to ensure that the wider Aboriginal community accepted the findings.

Aboriginal representatives called for a national day of action on 20 April 1994. During that inquiry, a medical practitioner testified that it was "highly improbable" that he had died from a Stokes-Adams attack.

Kev Carmody's 1995 song "The Young Dancer Is Dead" is about Yock.

Yock's death and the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody are explored in Ruby Langford Ginibi's 1999 book Haunted by the Past.

During the Black Lives Matter protests in Brisbane on 6 June 2020, some protesters held signs which included Yock's name.