Constable Zachary Rolfe is cleared of all charges over the fatal shooting of the 19-year-old Warlpiri man during an attempted arrest in the remote community of Yuendumu.
Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe has been cleared of all charges over the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker during an attempted arrest in the remote community of Yuendumu.A jury has found Constable Rolfe not guilty of all charges over the 2019 shooting in the remote community of Yuendumu
Constable Rolfe, 30, smiled after the verdict was announced in the NT Supreme Court and hugged his defence lawyer.Mr Walker was shot three times during a struggle with officers in a home in the community 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs in November 2019. Outside the court Constable Rolfe's defence lawyer David Edwardson QC told the waiting media "there are no winners in this case.""At the same time, Zachary Rolfe, in my view was wrongly charged in the first place.Verdict delivered after five weeks of evidence
Police body-worn camera footage played throughout the trial captured the struggle that started less than a minute after Constable Rolfe and his policing partner, Constable Adam Eberl, entered a home in Yuendumu and identified Kumanjayi Walker. But they argued that Mr Walker had been effectively restrained on the ground by Constable Eberl when Constable Rolfe fired his second shot 2.6 seconds after the first and a third shot 0.5 seconds after the second.
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