00:00The Northern Territory coroner was fairly scathing of former Constable Zachary Roll,
00:06finding that he was a racist and held racist attitudes which may have played a part in his
00:12actions on the night Kuminjai Walker died. She couldn't definitively say whether or not his
00:18racist attitudes played a part in the outcome that night when he shot Kuminjai Walker three
00:24times during a fatal arrest attempt. The coroner said he also held contempt for senior officers,
00:32that he was dismissive of safety regulations and that he had a tendency to rush in to get his man.
00:40The coroner made some scathing findings of Zachary Roll and late this afternoon the former Constable
00:46released a statement of his own rejecting many of the coroner's findings about him. He said the
00:54he does not accept criticisms by the coroner that he failed to adhere to operational safety training
00:59or that he ignored his training at all on the night Kuminjai Walker died or in any of the other
01:05five incidents that the coroner identified as times that she found Zachary Roll had unnecessarily used
01:13force. This statement from Mr. Roll goes on to say that this might be the appropriate vehicle
01:19for the Supreme Court to give clear guidance as to the proper scope of a coronial inquest going on to say
01:26this case in this case the coroner went far beyond her remit. This is an issue that Zachary
01:32Rolfe and his lawyers have raised several times throughout the coronial inquest. A statement released
01:37this afternoon doesn't say that Mr. Rolfe intends to appeal or seek a judicial review of these findings.
01:45However it does indicate that this is something that he is considering. Earlier this afternoon we
01:52heard from members of Kuminjai Walker's family. They sat down after taking in this 680 page report by the
02:00Northern Territory coroner saying that they were grateful that coroner Elizabeth Armitage travelled here
02:06to Yundamu yesterday to hand down those findings. They say that they feel validated by many of the
02:12coroner's findings of widespread systemic racism within the Northern Territory police force. They've
02:19also been grateful for some of the recommendations that the coroner has made about the community of
02:25Yundamu. The solutions have already existed and were here prior to the intervention and we're hoping that
02:34these recommendations around community authority and a leadership group allows us to get back to that spot
02:40and so like I really welcome that change and I welcome that there is going to be a return to
02:46you know community controlling. The Northern Territory police force itself has also responded today. The acting
02:53police commissioner Martin Dole addressed the media earlier alongside his executive director Leanne
02:59Little who was brought on board throughout this coronial process in order to address some of these issues of
03:05racism which were raised at the inquest. Leanne Little has said that there is it is clear that there
03:10is a racism issue within the Northern Territory police force. Here's what she had to say.
03:15What was tolerated in the past will no longer be acceptable and that's not just a statement that is a
03:25commitment and it is a promise that means that we will take necessary actions. We are working to rebuild
03:33trust not through words alone but through sustained partnerships. Ultimately whether any of these 32
03:40recommendations made by the coroner are implemented is up to the Northern Territory government. The Northern
03:46Territory government has said that it will take the time to consider these findings and recommendations
03:51but has noted that much has changed in the six years since Kumanjai Walker died.
03:57New Student in this year says that it was truly useful because we were right in the past and they
04:02got a wonderful department. It was really useful to us on that they are not always looking for us.
04:04It was very useful to us at the moment. You will remember us saying that we will be annealing
04:06that we can find a little more important, but we will need to make sure that we are in the past.
04:10The second time of the 조항 system is a very important service for the state of the organization
04:16that we have in the past. The pastoral system, you can find out that we are in loss of our country.
04:18There is a significant service that we have in the pastoral system with our own posts that we have in the pastoral system.
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