Kumanjayi Walker inquest: NT officer says she would not have requested police help if she knew of racist texts

Sergeant tells inquest she would not have allowed specialist response unit into Yuendumu if she had known of their racist and derogatory' views

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The sergeant in charge of the Yuendumu police station at the time of Kumanjayi Walker's death has told an inquest she would never have sent a specialist response unit to arrest the 19-year-old if she had known racist text messages between its members.

Walker was shot three times by Northern Territory police Const Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest by the immediate response team in Yuendumu in November 2019.

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