Zachary Rolfe accused of ‘racist’ assault weeks before fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker, inquest told

Zachary Rolfe leaving the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker in 2022. The court has heard that the then police officer was accused of striking a young Aboriginal man weeks before the shooting. Photograph: Aaron Bunch/AAP

A young Aboriginal man called Zachary Rolfe a “fucking racist” and accused him of striking him for no reason in an incident only weeks before the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker, an inquest has heard.

Rolfe shot Walker dead during a bungled arrest in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu in November 2019. He was later charged with murder, but acquitted after a supreme court trial.