Northern Territory police officers were trapped, assaulted and forced to retreat from an Alice Springs town camp last week while trying to arrest a man who allegedly opened fire with a rifle at a funeral.
Last Monday, Terrence Stephen Clyne allegedly shot at people attending a funeral near Kings Canyon, 330km west of Alice Springs, in an escalation of a feud between two families.
By the time police from Yulara arrived at the funeral, Mr Clyne had travelled to Alice Springs, where officers located him at Old Timers camp.
The Australian understands he allegedly used a vehicle to block the police crew’s exit from the camp as dozens of his relatives surrounded the police vehicle with two officers inside.

Sources say the alleged offender pointed his rifle at the officers as they tried to retreat from the location. As the officers escaped, a rock thrown through the front passenger window struck one of them on the arm.
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“This would be national news if it happened anywhere else in Australia.”
Mr Finn said he believed the incident was kept quiet because the government did not want “bad stories about Alice Springs” being reported in the media “given the problems they’ve been having”.
Mr Clyne appeared in the Alice Springs Local Court on Thursday morning. Judge John McBride said family disputes could escalate without warning. “People can get seriously hurt and injured,” he said.
“With a family dispute in play – which of course we all know, unfortunately, can escalate very quickly – my concern is the protection of the wider community and for that reason, I‘m going to decline bail at the moment.”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/alice-springs-cops-trapped-in-town-camp-...A hundred years ago he would have been shot dead.