A Northern Territory police sergeant who was in charge of the tactical unit involved in the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker says he does not know why he used the term “bush coon” in a text message to his former colleague Zachary Rolfe, an inquest has heard.
On Thursday, Sgt Lee Bauwens told the inquest into Walker’s death that there was no excuse for using the slur in the message to Rolfe in July 2019, four months before Walker was killed at the remote community of Yuendumu.
