A long-awaited coronial inquest into the 2019 police shooting of a 19-year-old Aboriginal man in Australia has found that the officer who killed him held racist views that were “normalised” within the Northern Territory (NT) Police Force.
Zachary Rolfe, 33, then a constable, shot Kumanjayi Walker three times during an attempted arrest in the remote community of Yuendumu. The killing prompted national outrage and renewed focus on the treatment of Indigenous Australians by law enforcement, especially after the inquest revealed text messages between officers using racial slurs and glorifying violence.
