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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Collard

Kumanjayi Walker inquest: NT officer says she would not have requested police help if she knew of racist texts

Julie Frost in police uniform and wearing a mask
Sgt Julie Frost departs the NT supreme court in Darwin on 11 February 2022. Photograph: Aaron Bunch/AAP

The sergeant in charge of the Yuendumu police station at the time of Kumanjayi Walker’s death has told an inquest she would never have sent a specialist response unit to arrest the 19-year-old if she had known racist text messages between its members.

Walker was shot three times by Northern Territory police Const Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest by the immediate response team in Yuendumu in November 2019.

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