A senior officer has rebuked a special police unit for deviating from a detailed plan to detain Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker, who was fatally shot during a bungled arrest.
NT Deputy Police Commissioner Murray Smalpage told the inquest into Mr Walker’s death that the unit did not appear to adhere to standard police safety principles, which was “tactically unsound and unhelpful for his apprehension and potentially placed officers at greater risk”.
