Zachary Rolfe

2022 - 3 - 11

Kumanjayi Walker - zach rolfe

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'This case is tragic': Zachary Rolfe is cleared and an Aboriginal ... (The Guardian)

The jury ultimately believed the NT police officer's account of the killing of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker. But while the trial is over, many matters ...

And Rolfe said “it’s all good, he was stabbing me, he was stabbing you” immediately after the incident, Strickland said, not to reassure Eberl, as claimed, but because he knew he had been “gung ho”, “gone too far” and wanted to “justify the unjustifiable”. Rolfe was charged in relation to the second and third shots. It was therefore not surprising that the body-worn camera footage of the shooting was played countless times in real time, slow-motion and frame-by-frame. Rolfe takes his phone from his pocket, finds a photo on it of Walker, and holds the phone up to his face. Outside the station, a crowd was gathering, angry and wanting answers about why the young Warlpiri man had been shot by police. What was discussed during the roughly half hour that Rolfe was in the station is a matter of some dispute. The second bullet fired by Rolfe had ripped through his spleen, a lung, his liver and a kidney. Rolfe ushers him to a wall of the house, not far from the door. Frost had also decided that as she was in a relationship with Hand, neither of them, nor Smith, should be involved in the arrest of Walker, to avoid any possibility his treatment would be perceived as payback for the axe incident. Rolfe had been a member of the team for almost two years. Twelve days earlier, he had left a residential alcohol treatment program in Alice Springs that he had been ordered by a court to attend as part of a suspended sentence. Walker was laughing at a family photo of his two small cousins and an aunt in a swimming pool.

Police officer Zachary Rolfe acquitted over death of Kumanjayi Walker (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The jury in the Northern Territory Supreme Court trial has cleared Rolfe over the 2019 shooting death.

And he was alone. Was he in pain? It was the second and third shots, fired while Mr Walker wrestled on mattress with another police officer, that the Crown argued were murderous. Was he scared? The officer then fired his Glock pistol three times, 2.6 and .53 seconds apart. Are we not part of Australia?” It was a travesty that Constable Rolfe was charged so quickly and without thorough investigation. We’ll have more to say about that in the coming days.” So was Mr McCue. The officer, 30, was acquitted of all three. A young man lost his life,” Mr McCue said. That’s what I think,” he said.

Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe found not guilty of ... (9News)

A jury has found police officer Zachary Rolfe not guilty of murder over the fatal shooting of Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker, after a month-long trial ...

After the verdict was handed down, Mr Rolfe spoke to 9News, saying he was "really happy" with the result. He said Mr Rolfe and his partner were "set upon viciously" and described the murder charge as "a travesty". "He was acting in the reasonable performance of his duties, and he was acting in self-defence; the self-defence of himself and his partner. "And in many respects, he was the author of his own misfortune." "The executive of the Northern Territory Police Force and those they deployed to justify these charges, you might think, have thrown everything at Zachary Rolfe because of a decision that should never have been made," Mr Edwardson said. "The Crown case is that the evidence that the accused gave in court, that he did have those beliefs, was a lie, and the accused lied to justify the unjustifiable; namely, the fatal shooting of Kumanjayi Walker," Mr Strickland said.

Family of Kumanjayi Walker speak after NT Police officer Zachary ... (ABC News)

The family of Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker, who died after being shot by NT police officer Zachary Rolfe in 2019, has spoken of their heartbreak after a ...

And he was alone." "Was he in pain? We don't want no guns," he said. Do not silence us." Ms Fernandez-Brown said Mr Walker would be "proud" of his supporters, and this was "not the end of his story". "We as a family and community will remember him as a young man who loved animals, who loved his family, who loved his partner, his friends, his homelands, who loved music," she said.

Zachary Rolfe 'not guilty' on all charges (SBS)

The Northern Territory cop who shot and killed 19-year-old Warlpiri man Kumanjayi Walker in 2019 has walked out of court a free man after a jury acquitted ...

The shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker by Constable Zachary Rolfe sent shock waves through the Northern Territory and its Aboriginal communities that reverberated around the nation. A big contingent of family and Elders from Yuendumu have attended the trial and have endured repeated examinations of the moment Constable Rolfe fired three shots into Kumanjayi Walker in agonising and explicit detail. The acquittal ends almost two and half years of uncertainty for the families of Kumanjayi Walker and 30-year-old Zachary Rolfe.

Zachary Rolfe tells WHY he pulled the trigger on Indigenous ... (Daily Mail)

Constable Zachary Rolfe, 30, was acquitted of murdering Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker and engaging in a violent act by a Northern Territory Supreme ...

We'll have more to say about that in the coming days.' They saw only his flaws, and wished to put him at trial for his own death. 'As we've spoken about previously, it was a tragic day. A young man lost his life. Was he in pain? 'The biggest problem we have is the racism in the police and racism in the court system. 'Cause I wouldn't. He has been criticised and picked apart by people who didn't know him. Was he scared? 'There are over 500 Aboriginal deaths in custody that need justice. He's a hero to you guys,' she fumed. 'A good leader should take the hits. Racism kills our young fella, Kumanjayi Walker.'