Article 65C8K ‘Don’t run from police’: Zachary Rolfe boasted to mother about injuring suspect, inquest told

‘Don’t run from police’: Zachary Rolfe boasted to mother about injuring suspect, inquest told

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NT inquiry into death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2019 hears Rolfe separately bragged to paramedic he mashed some dude's face against a wall'

A Northern Territory police officer who shot and killed Kumanjayi Walker bragged to his mother about injuring another man wrongly suspected of escaping custody, an inquest has heard.

Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after Const Zachary Rolfe shot him three times during a botched arrest in Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, in November 2019.

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