Rolfe is on bail and appeared before the court via video link from Canberra. NT police officer Zachary Rolfe shot Kumanjayi Walker twice at 'very close' range, court told Read moreOfficer in charge, sergeant Julie Frost, asked Walker’s family to encourage him to surrender peacefully. In the resulting struggle with Constable Adam Eberl and Rolfe, Walker stabbed Rolfe, who shot him. We have a little catchphrase of ‘knife equals gun’,” said Constable James Kierstenfeldt, one of the officers present when Walker was shot. “Had Constable Rolfe fired two shots in the beginning, after he had gotten stabbed, instead of the one shot, I would be perfectly in support of those discharges,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 03, 2020 02:45 UTC