A police officer who shot a 19-year-old three times during an attempted arrest, would be the first police officer to be convicted in Australia of unlawfully killing an Indigenous person.
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s highest court ruled on Wednesday that a police officer cannot use his law enforcement job as a defense against a charge of murdering an Indigenous man.
Walker had stabbed Rolfe with a pair of scissors during a struggle. The murder charge relates to the second and third shots that killed Walker and that prosecutors allege were unnecessary. The judges ruled that a jury should decide whether Rolfe’s actions fitted the criteria of the immunity clause.
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