Brian Ross wrote on Jul 6
th, 2025 at 1:16pm:
It wasn't the shooting that "tore" the territory apart...
it was the decision by Police bureaucrats & the then Govt to throw the officer under the bus and charge him for murder without proper procedure & investigation.
Luckily his Union saw him well represented.
The Judge - Elizabeth Armitage - in the inquest has typically done a job of supposition and "could not say with certainties". Using the lefty cliches of racist & systemic institutionalised racism to describe Rolfe & Territory Police.
Quote:She made 32 recommendations, including developing "mutual respect agreements" to limit when police carry guns in the Yuendumu community, and for police's anti-racism strategy to be strengthened, targeted and made public, and for compliance with its measures be publicly reported.
What makes Yuendemu or any other Aboriginal community an exception as to when Police carry guns?
The inhabitants have no trouble arming themselves with all sorts of weapons. Is that community itself free of any guns(hunting)?
Yuendemu Police had already been out once, 3 days earlier to try and arrest Walker & he took to them with an axe.
Yuendemu Police couldn't handle him so they called the IRT(Immediate Response Team) from Alice Springs.
Yuendemu has been a violent community for a long time. It's where Jacinta Price comes from. She posted photos of her grandmother who had been bashed there.
Read the lead up history to this event. Including this bit.
Quote:Although Walker was a violent offender, the failed arrest was the first time he had threatened violence against police.[18] The task of arresting him passed from officers based in Yuendumu to the Alice Springs-based Immediate Response Team. This team, which included Rolfe, arrived in the town on the evening of Saturday 9 November. The Supreme Court later heard that the IRT members were aware of the axe incident, and had viewed the body-worn camera footage from the failed arrest attempt.[23]
Medical staff evacuated
On 6 November, unidentified offenders ransacked the home of the manager of Yuendumu's medical clinic. The following day, the windscreen of her car was smashed, and on Friday she and her husband drove to Alice Springs, 300 km (190 mi) away, to have it fixed. Later that day, someone tried to break into the house again, as well as the home of a colleague at the clinic. That night, the homes and vehicles of two other nurses and a midwife were attacked with shovels, pickaxes and other weapons. There had been similar incidents in the preceding months, and, fearing for the nurses' safety, health department officials decided to evacuate all medical staff and their families on the morning of 9 November.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kumanjayi_Walker
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