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A Northern Territory police officer who shot an Indigenous teenager useless has penned an open letter and fled the nation.
Constable Zachary Rolfe, who shot Kumanjayi Walker thrice throughout a bungled outback arrest in Yuendumu, northwest of Alice Springs, in November 2019, flew out of Canberra on Thursday.
The 31-year-old has printed an open letter defending his character and criticizing the NT Police Drive and its commissioner for a way they dealt with the inquest into the capturing.
The letter comes after his refusal to reply questions on the coronial inquest into the 19-year-old Warlpiri man’s dying.
Within the letter, Const Wolfe mentioned the NT Police Drive had wasted thousands and thousands of {dollars} on disciplining him, somewhat than giving him a medal.
“Regardless of this, the coronal focus remains to be on me somewhat than on areas that might enhance the circumstances of the NT,” he wrote.
He additionally justified a collection of texts through which he used derogatory phrases in direction of Indigenous folks, calling it “playground” language.
“I’ve used impolite and racist phrases concerning nearly each race, most frequently my very own,” he wrote.
Const Rolfe is at present interesting a NT Supreme Courtroom ruling that he ought to reply questions in regards to the textual content messages, his alleged extreme use of power and allegations he falsified a police recruitment utility at an ongoing coronial inquest into the capturing.
– AAP
