Police officer who shot dead Indigenous woman on WA street found not guilty of murder

First-class constable also acquitted of manslaughter over 2019 death of woman known as JC in Geraldton street

A police officer who shot dead an Indigenous woman carrying a knife on a suburban West Australian street has been acquitted of her murder.

The first-class constable faced a three-week trial in the WA supreme court over the September 2019 killing of the 29-year-old woman, known as JC for cultural reasons, in the state's Mid West.