Australian investigation says racism behind the shooting of the original teenage police Native population rights

The discovery of Coroner comes five years after Bruce Police, Zakari Rolf, shot the 19 -year -old Commandjai Walker.

An Australian police officer, who shot an indigenous teenager, discovered a “racist attraction” to the “high adrenaline police”.

The results released in the city of Yuindomo in central Australia said Monday at the Australia Center in central Australia on Monday, that the racist behavior “was also normalized at the Alice Springs police station in Zakari Rolf, and said he said.

The results were delivered five years after the 19 -year -old Commandjay Walker, which led to protests throughout the country. But Rolf was not guilty of death in a trial in the northern capital of Darwin in 2022.

Walker was shot three times during the attempted arrest in Yuindomo – one of 598 of the indigenous population and the inhabitants of the Torres Strait Islands Those who died in reservation since 1991 when detailed records began.

“I found that Mr. Rolf was racist,” said the investigating judge in the northern region, Elizabeth Armitage, where she presented her conclusions after achieving nearly three years.

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– NT Courts (Courtsinnt) July 7, 2025

She said that Rolf, who was rejected by the police force in 2023 for direct reasons, worked in an organization with a sign of “institutional racism”.

She said that there is a “great danger” that Rolf’s racism and other situations affected his response “in a way that increased the possibility of a deadly result.”

The pathologist said that the Walker family and its community will always believe that racism had played a “integral part” of his death. “It stains the police (northern lands).”

The forensic doctor was martyred in an offensive language used at the alleged award ceremony for the Tactical Police of the region, describing them as “horrific examples of racism.”

She said: “Over the course of the contract, the prizes were awarded, and no complaint was submitted for them.”

The police text messages also showed his attractiveness to the “high adrenaline police” and “contempt” for some of the senior officers as well as the police far away. She said that these positions “have the ability to increase the possibility of a deadly meeting with Commandigai.”

In a joint statement before the pathologist issued its results, the Walker family said that the investigation revealed “a deep regular racism within the NT police.

The family said in the statement on social media.

“It is in place, the investigation listened to evidence that supports a return to control over the full society, with what Yapa has always known: when we can determine our future fate and our judgment on our societies, our people are stronger, our results are better, and our culture is thrived,” the statement said, in reference to the people of war, also known as Yapa.

The Armitage show was postponed last month after he was the 24 -year -old Warlipri’s man, Kumumjay White, who was also from Yuindomo, He died in the police seizure In a supermarket in Alice Springs.

White’s death also prompted the protests and called for an independent investigation into his death.