NT police unit involved in Kumanjayi Walker shooting was a ‘paramilitary group’, inquest told
by Australian Associated Press and Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#69HDD)
Academic also tells coroner that texts sent by constable Zachary Rolfe showed a cowboy' mindset with a sense of impunity'
The specialist police unit involved in the fatal shooting of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker fulfilled the description of a paramilitary group, an inquest has heard.
Constable Zachary Rolfe shot Walker three times during a bungled arrest in Yuendumu, north-west of Alice Springs, on 9 November 2019. He was found not guilty of all criminal charges in relation to the death.
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