NT police defends ‘ruse’ of not telling locals Kumanjayi Walker had been shot dead by an officer

Police sent ambulance to local airport in 2019 to give impression teenager was being transferred to Alice Springs for treatment, inquest told

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The ruse" to keep Indigenous members of a Northern Territory community in the dark about the death of a teenager shot by police was necessary at the time, an inquest has been told.

Supt Jody Nobbs made the decision in November 2019 to not tell locals in Yuendumu about the death of Kumanjayi Walker, who was shot three times during a bungled arrest.