A warning this next story contains racist and offensive language and images. The former Northern Territory police officer who killed an aboriginal man during an attempted arrest has told the coroner investigating the shooting he has become bored with the coronial process. At the inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker the coroner heard former Constable Zachary Rolfe believed he should never have been charged with murder saying the prosecution against him was malicious.
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00:00 After about seven days in the witness box throughout the entire coronial
00:05 inquest into the death of Kumunjai Walker, former Northern Territory Police
00:09 Constable Zachary Rolfe has finished giving evidence. Mr. Rolfe told the
00:14 coroner today that he doesn't feel any anger but that he's bored of the
00:18 coronial process which has taken almost two years and counting. He said he's
00:23 ready to move on. The inquest was initially scheduled to run for three
00:28 months back in 2022 but it's been delayed several times by numerous
00:33 appeals and legal challenges launched predominantly by Mr. Rolfe himself. The
00:38 former officer who was acquitted of charges of murder, manslaughter and
00:41 engaging in a violent act causing death in early 2022, he agreed with suggestions
00:47 that he believed he had been persecuted completely without warrant. Mr. Rolfe
00:52 told the court today he was sorry for the trauma felt by Mr. Walker's family
00:57 in the wake of the shooting saying he believed the family will not be able to
01:01 move on until the NT police force resolved what he said was conflicting
01:06 messaging about the night of the shooting. He told the court there had
01:09 been zero racial motivation behind any of his actions while he was a police
01:14 officer for three years in Alice Springs. Mr. Rolfe's long-awaited evidence was
01:19 explosive. He revealed allegations of widespread racism within the Northern
01:24 Territory Police Force and did take responsibility and apologized for his
01:28 own use of racist language. But as the coroner has been investigating the
01:33 culture of the Northern Territory Police Force and uncovered allegations of this
01:38 widespread racism, the Northern Territory Police Commissioner is now expected to
01:43 give evidence tomorrow as the inquest nears its end.
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