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Neve Brissenden

Rolfe says family 'must take responsibility' for death

Former police officer Zachary Rolfe has denied celebrating the killing of an Indigenous teenager. (Rudi Maxwell/AAP PHOTOS)

A former Northern Territory police constable who shot dead an Indigenous teenager believes the man's family must bear some responsibility for the death.

Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19, three times as he resisted being handcuffed while armed with a pair of scissors in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs, on November 9, 2019.

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