I wonder how you’d feel if it was a white kid who stabbed the cop, threatened them with a tomohawk and had 3 days earlier threatened another policeman with an axe and had a long rap sheet and was killed or do you mainly care because it was an aboriginal criminal?
A police officer who was threatened with an axe by Kumanjayi Walker told the Warlpiri man’s family that if he did the same thing to another officer “he might get shot”, a court has heard.
The court has also heard that three days later, Walker used a pair of surgical scissors to stab constable Zachary Rolfe, who shot him dead.
Rolfe is on trial in the
Northern Territorysupreme court for the alleged murder of Walker. He has pleaded not guilty to that charge and two alternate charges, and is arguing his actions were reasonable and justifiable in the context of the danger faced by him and a colleague.
On Wednesday, the court heard from two police officers who had attempted to arrest Walker at the remote community of Yuendumu on 6 November 2019, several days before Walker’s death during the attempted arrest involving Rolfe.
Walker, 19, was wanted by police for removing an electronic monitoring device and escaping a residential alcohol treatment facility the previous month.
