Although first shot fired by police at teenager was justified, second two shots were not, expert tells Alice Springs supreme court
The first shot Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe fired during a struggle with Yuendumu man Kumanjayi Walker was “reasonable”, but his two follow-up shots were “excessive, unreasonable and unnecessary”, an expert criminologist has told the Alice Springs supreme court.
Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after being shot three times by Constable Rolfe as four officers attempted arrest him in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu in central Australia on 9 November last year.
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