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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kumanjayi Walker shooting: ‘disturbing’ texts between officers involved are relevant, inquest told

Two women and a man, all in suits, approaching the camera outside a police station.
Counsels assisting the coroner Peggy Dwyer, Patrick Coleridge and solicitor Maria Walz (centre) arrive for the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker. Photograph: Aaron Bunch/AAP

Text messages exchanged among police officers “reveal disturbing attitudes towards Aboriginal people” and should be able to be considered by the coroner, an inquest into the shooting death of a Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker, has heard.

Walker, 19, was shot three times by constable Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest in the remote NT community of Yuendumu in November 2019. Rolfe was found not guilty of murder and two alternative charges after a six-week trial in the NT supreme court in Darwin.

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