Tasered Brazilian felt safer in Sydney, memorial service hears

The 21-year-old Brazilian who died on a Sydney street last Sunday after being Tasered by police often spoke about how safe he felt in Sydney compared with Brazil, a memorial service heard.

As the rap lyrics ''so what we get drunk, so what we smoke weed, we're just having fun'' played, the family and friends of Roberto "Betinho" Laudisio Curti cried, hugged and threw white and yellow roses off a Bondi cliff into the sea.

He may have been in Australia for only a few months, but almost 100 people gathered at Bondi Beach yesterday afternoon to celebrate his life.