Dakota Kelsy Jane Major, 19, pleaded guilty to six charges including two counts of assaulting police, possession of a knife and public nuisance in the Mount Isa Magistrates Court on Monday.

The court heard Major tried to take a stun gun off a police officer during a riot involving 300 people at 4.30am on Saturday, March 28. 

At Wednesday’s full council meeting Cr McGrady will recommend the council refer the matter to the state’s Attorney General Yvette D’Arth. 

“And if after studying the transcript of the case she believes that the sentence was too lenient then consideration should be given to appealing the sentence,” he said. 

Cr McGrady said the highly publicised riot portrayed Mount Isa as “Dodge City”, terrorised the neighbourhood’s families, and traumatised police officers. 

“To then read that a person who was in the vicinity of the riots, who pleaded guilty to six serious charges, was sentenced to 50 hours community service and 12 months’ probation beggars belief,” the mayor said. 

“I know about the independence of the judicial system, I also acknowledge that I was not in the court when the evidence was being given. 

“But I also know that a city council, as leaders of a community has responsibilities to assist in upholding law and order and maintaining a community where people respect each other.”