NOT GUILTY Australia - Kumanjayi Walker, 19, fatally shot by LE, Yuendumu, Nov 2019

[brissygirl2019]

I'll find a source Trooper. I have found some facebook posts that state the charges were laid four days after the incident on the 9th of Nov & I did find an article that states the dates as well but I will have to go back & find it & get the link .. I got distracted at the time.

 

[brissygirl2019]

trying another link ... BBC news dated 14 November 2019

Yuendumu: Policeman charged with Aboriginal teenager's murder

 

[Trooper]

trying another link ... BBC news dated 14 November 2019

Yuendumu: Policeman charged with Aboriginal teenager's murder

Good stuff, BG.. I found this snippet interesting..

'The Royal Flying Doctor Service said it had also delayed travelling to the site because of safety concerns.'

That is the only time I have seen it referred to as the reason for the delay.. 'staff shortage' 'weather problems', etc.. these were the reasons given in later articles.

Good old BBC , I have been surprised at how many news conglomerates have been following this matter diligently.. LA Times, Washington Post, NY Times, Irish Times, Globe and Mail , ( Canada ) , Le Figaro, Le Monde, El País ( Madrid).. Brazil and Argentina , also,

Most of them have a daily update, which mainly are correct with the translation from English, News magazine Der Spiegel (Germany ) has done extensive coverage every day ..

 

[Trooper]

trying another link ... BBC news dated 14 November 2019

Yuendumu: Policeman charged with Aboriginal teenager's murder

Also , in this report.. He is taken, after being shot 3 times ( I don't know if he is dead or alive at this point ) to the police station in Yuendumu.... How ? in whose vehicle? too far to carry , he couldn't walk. Who took him to the police station in his injured state? Still lots of unanswered questions...

'He died in the police station at Yuendumu. There was no medical care in the town at the time - medical staff from another town arrived after he had died.'

 

[brissygirl2019]

I'll have a look around, I was of the belief that Walker was alive when taken to the police station & it was in the police vehicle??

I was aware that many of the staff shortages were due to safety concerns, people were getting outta dodge

 

[brissygirl2019]

Walker was reported to be alive & died an hour after the shooting ...

Kumanjayi Walker might have survived fatal police shooting if remote medical help was available, court told

From the article:

"A medical expert has told Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe's murder trial that 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker may have survived the fatal shooting if there had been professional medical help in Yuendumu at the time.

Mr Walker died in the remote community 300 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs about an hour after he was shot three times by Constable Rolfe during an attempted arrest in November 2019.

The court has previously heard police delivered first aid and took Mr Walker to the Yuendumu police station after the shooting because there were no health workers at the local clinic that day.

The court previously heard health workers had evacuated the community earlier on the day of the shooting after a spate of recent break-ins at staff accommodation."

To me it sounds like it would not have made any difference at all to the outcome if the health workers were on actually on hand.

This is such a sad sorry story all around

 

[brissygirl2019]

News just in...

Not guilty on all counts!

I will find a link

 

[brissygirl2019]

Police officer Zachary Rolfe acquitted over death of Kumanjayi Walker

Zachary Rolfe acquitted of murder of Kmanjayi Walker

 

[Trooper]

NT police officer Zachary Rolfe found not guilty of murder over fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker - ABC News

 

[Trooper]

Heartbreak in Yuendumu.

 

[Trooper]

My condolences to the Warlpiri & Yuendumu community.

Over and out.

That extends the record to 234 years without a copper being found guilty for killing an Aboriginal person.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

I'm not surprised by the verdict but deeply saddened by it nonetheless. Nothing has changed.
Rolfe though, mustn't have been confident about shooting YK, that he felt the need to lie that YK had reached for his weapon. He wanted everything stacked against YK as an unstoppable force and he had no choice.

Very unsuitable person for the job, he looked as arrogant after the verdict as he did attending court each day, he hasn't learnt a thing, imo, he knew he'd be found not guilty.
JMO

 

[Hag]

Acquitted on ALL charges.....................

 

[Jaded325594]

My condolences to the Warlpiri & Yuendumu community.

Over and out.

That extends the record to 234 years without a copper being found guilty for killing an Aboriginal person.

No matter what actually happened, or how convincing the prosecution was, the outcome was NEVER going to be different, as it never has been. Watching Kumanjayi's family's statements broke my heart.

 

[Trooper]

No matter what actually happened, or how convincing the prosecution was, the outcome was NEVER going to be different, as it never has been. Watching Kumanjayi's family's statements broke my heart.

I believe you are correct. I mistakenly thought that it would be different, the evidence being what it showed. I am broken for the Yuendumu people, and the mob that put them up in Alice Springs and Darwin, the Larrakiah and the Arrente, and for all of us, really. We are smaller for this verdict.

 

[Jaded325594]

https://www.news.com.au/national/co...n/news-story/bec02406f30217fc60753743b9b67277

Did you see this Trooper?

 

[Trooper]

https://www.news.com.au/national/co...n/news-story/bec02406f30217fc60753743b9b67277

Did you see this Trooper?

Yes.. all of the articles so far written, actually.. His association with this person has been a long one, both their mothers being friends..

and then, there is this, ..... Richard Rolfe ‐ Australia Day


Partner, Debbie Rolfe receives Member of the Order of Australia | Maliganis Edwards Johnson (mej.com.au)
and this.... as I mentioned, Rolfe had a lot of clout in Canberra..

 

[Trooper]

Eventually, there will be a coroners inquest....

 

[Jaded325594]

Certainly doesn't paint a good picture, birds of a feather and all.

 

[Jaded325594]

Later that day, Rolfe and other officers on the general duties roster decided to search a house in Warlpiri camp, Alice Springs, where Walker had been known to stay.

There did not appear to be anyone home, but one of Rolfe’s colleagues saw two young Aboriginal men running into scrub behind the property. Neither of them was Walker. Rolfe can be heard saying on his body-worn camera about one of the men: <modsnip>

‘This case is tragic’: Zachary Rolfe is cleared and an Aboriginal family left with questions

Another source said there were seven or eight disciplinary notices that had already been served.

“They would be for things like offensive language and excessive force and they would have gone out and interviewed Aborginal people who he arrested and showed them a picture of Zach and asked them if he had been too rough with them,” they said.

Zach Rolfe to be served discipline breach notices by top brass after not guilty verdict | NT Independent

Bring on the inquest.