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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter

Senior NT police deny Zachary Rolfe’s claim unit held racist mock award, inquest hears

Zachary Rolfe
Zachary Rolfe (pictured) claimed at the Kumanjayi Walker inquest that racist language was ‘normalised in the NT police force’. Photograph: Rudi Maxwell/AAP

Senior police from the Northern Territory’s heavily armed tactical response unit have strongly denied claims by Zachary Rolfe that the unit bestowed a racist mock award on colleagues who displayed Aboriginal-like behaviour, a court has heard.

Rolfe made the claims earlier this week in Alice Springs during the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker.

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