Police officer who shot Aboriginal teen was 'racist', inquest finds (www.bbc.com)
from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 11:44
https://sh.itjust.works/post/41706127

The police officer who killed Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker in 2019 was “racist” and had an “attraction” to adrenaline-style policing, a coroner’s inquest has found.

Walker, 19, died shortly after he was shot three times at close range by Constable Zachary Rolfe during a home arrest in Yuendumu, a remote Indigenous community in the Northern Territory (NT).

Rolfe - no longer a policeman - was charged with Walker’s murder and acquitted in 2022, sparking protests about Indigenous deaths in custody.

In delivering her findings, Judge Elisabeth Armitage said Walker’s death was “avoidable” and there was “clear evidence of entrenched, systemic and structural racism” within NT’s police force.

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archonet@lemy.lol on 07 Jul 12:07 next collapse

a policeman? racist? why, I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked.

Lime66@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 12:17 collapse

Who shot a teen as soon as he saw they were aboriginal? No way!

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jul 13:19 next collapse
Cypher@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 15:07 collapse

That’s not how it went down but why let facts get in the way of a good story?

SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one on 09 Jul 06:11 collapse

Don’t bother trying to sway the Yanks, they’re so far up the ACAB brainrot there’s no hope for them.

Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml on 09 Jul 09:00 collapse

You mean ACA ren’t B, inspite of being part of a B system?

sirico@feddit.uk on 07 Jul 12:34 next collapse

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tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 07 Jul 12:39 next collapse

‘racist’ or just racist

Humanius@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 13:12 collapse

The “racist” between quotes in the headline just means that that one word is a direct quote from someone or something, wheas the rest of the headline is paraphrased. In this case it’s a direct quote from a coroner’s inquest by Judge Armitage.

I’m not a fan of this style of quoting, since writing singular words between quotes could easily also be read as insincerity or sarcasm. But it seems to be pretty common in English language media.

Edit: Judge Armitage also writes that this police officer being racist isn’t just incidental, but rather that the police station he is working at apparently has a work-place culture that has normalised racism (as per the article)

SheeEttin@lemmy.zip on 07 Jul 15:16 next collapse

It’s specifically quoting someone so that the guy can’t sue for defamation. The article isn’t calling him racist.

tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 Jul 05:01 collapse

Thanks for explaining

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 07 Jul 13:13 next collapse

“Adrenaline-style policing”: new policing methodology just dropped. What are the pros and cons of it versus, say, Peelian community policing?

Humanius@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 13:22 next collapse

Pro: It’s radical and cool and you get to shoot your gun! Pew! Pew!
Con: You occasionally have cases of innocent minorities getting shot by racists

darvocet@infosec.pub on 07 Jul 14:31 collapse

I think the police see these both as pros.

M137@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 15:47 next collapse

Nothing new about it, the US has been using it for decades.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 09 Jul 08:06 collapse

opposite would be thc style policing.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 07 Jul 13:17 next collapse

I’m not just glad this was finally put right but also-

In her findings, Judge Armitage found that Rolfe made a “series of flawed decisions” that led to “officer-induced jeopardy” - a situation where police “needlessly put themselves in danger… creating a situation that justifies the use of deadly force”.

She also said Rolfe - a former soldier - found combat situations “exhilarating” and had an “attraction to adrenalin policing”. He had also ignored an arrest plan for Walker created by a female officer because he “thought he knew better”, Judge Armitage said.

We can finally start to well… police, police being adrenalin junkies and deliberately putting themselves in harms way.

skozzii@lemmy.ca on 07 Jul 17:04 next collapse

Acquitted in 2022, seems like a retrial is in order. Corruption seems to be at play.

Karrion409@lemmy.world on 09 Jul 06:56 next collapse

A police officer ? Racist ? Nooo you’re kidding.

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone on 09 Jul 12:22 collapse

Zach Rolf was stabbed by the man who he shot and shot him while he was attempting to stab a second police officer.

www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-10/…/13749690

All hard to see in the video but not exactly the way it’s framed in the article