A bitter property dispute that erupted on a suburban street has left a man covered in blood.
Action for Alice, a social media group dedicated to sharing criminal activity in the Northern Territory, shared confronting photos following the conflict which unfolded about 7pm on Tuesday in Karama, north Darwin.
Administrators of the Facebook page claim the man had tried to stop a woman and several young children from destroying a public house they’d been evicted from.
However, the group turned on him and was seen throwing objects at his head before another man arrived, off camera.
‘Just watched a mother and six young girls bash my neighbour. [We’re] waiting for police now,’ a witness told Action for Alice.
‘Another car pulled up and a bloke chased him into his home and smashed all the back of his house up.
‘All he was trying to do was stop the girls smashing up the house they got evicted from. Not on.’
Exclusive footage shared with Daily Mail shows a female taunting the man, who has lived next door to the public housing property for 20 years.
The young girl alleged the man had pulled her hair and punched her in the jaw before she started filming.
‘Why’d you hit me?,’ she said.
‘I did not do anything. I did not hit you.
‘I wasn’t at your house … I was at my mother’s house.’
The disturbing video shows a group of children repeatedly throwing rocks at the man’s head.
At one stage, the man retaliated and threw a rock back at the kids.
‘Hitting kids with rocks. Ha? Evidence motherf**ker,’ the girl filming said.
‘He hit little kids. He hit little minors.
‘You’re going to jail, you’re going to jail!’
The girl also told the man he ‘needs to go back to his country’ and called him a ‘paedophile-looking c**t’.
The two photos showing the bloodied man after the confrontation gained thousands of reactions after being posted.
‘So sad! Disgusting behaviour from those involved!,’ one person wrote.
‘Poor man. Just heartbreaking,’ another said.
However, other commenters questioned why the man was willing to get involved in the first place.
‘Why didn’t he just film them then show it to the police?,’ one wrote.
‘Sometimes people just need to mind their own business. It’s horrible yes, but do not put yourself in dangerous situations,’ another said.
Other commenters blamed politicians for failing to deter violence amid the NT’s growing crime epidemic.
‘Hence why the government should stop putting money into tourism but instead do the crime control. I will never visit that place,’ one said.
‘Bloody pathetic, please politicians stop being woke and get real, this is a joke. nobody in should have to live and endure this,’ another wrote.
Daily Mail has contacted NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services for comment.