Kumanjayi Walker was killed by a racist cop. Australia doesn’t care.

I heard on Monday like many other people of the country all over the country. Findings and Suggestions Coronal investigation into Kumanjayi Walker’s custody about death.

For many reasons, I felt important to do it. Justice Elisabeth Armitage’s findings have been coming for a long time, and the fact that he had surrendered them to the town of Yuendum in the town of Yuendum in the town of Yuendum showed both the importance and sensitivity of these findings.

And they were very important. Justice Armitage found that Constable Zachary Rolfe, a arrest police officer who hit Kummanjayi Walker three times, was racist, showing racist attitudes several times, Aborigin has a history of excessive force on men, and proudly shared his violent arrest images with others. In addition, Rolfe’s racism could not ignore that fate played a role in the actions he chose on the day.

Armitage also found that Walker’s death was prevented and that Rolfe was contrary to a already searched arrest plan between the members of the community and the senior office because there was a problem of thirst for authority (and especially the women in authority) and Bravado.

Justice Armitage still did not leave there. He also stated that Rolfe is not a “Bad Apple” scenario. Indeed, racism found that there was a systemic problem that penetrated its operations and workplace cultures within NT police, and therefore Rolfe was part of a much greater problem.

In many ways, Justice Armitage’s findings were not surprising to anyone who followed this case. The Yuendumu community has been consistent to state that racism has died of Walker and indeed that they believed that there was a factor in policing experiences in general. They have been calling for change for a long time, including Asking the police not to carry weapons in their communities.

Moreover, after delivering Reconciliation Speech at the 2024 Station FestivalThe NT police commissioner Michael Murphy was founded by the NT Police Association, which was essentially founded by the NT Police Association, which I have resigned from the wrong administration since then) and resigned from its membership, that he was so scared that he even undertaken the modicum of an intimacy.

NT prisons are full of Aboriginal people. Seven years ago, Aborigin children made up 100% of the prisoners in custody, which has not changed for the better since then. I will not forget to watch Fears against Aboriginal Children in Don Dale came into force Soon at any time.

Nevertheless, the findings of the investigation, especially Criminal decision for Erin Patterson -A woman who killed three mother-in-law and killed the fourth place using toxic mushrooms was delivered after a few hours later. It was hard not to feel sarcastic.

In a poisonous and severe system, he was very interested in a nation held by a “real crime epic üstü, including a young man’s life, respectable victims and a calculating woman. This is not to reduce the incredible pain that Heather Wilkinson and Gail and Don Patterson’s family and communities pass, and the tremendous relaxation they feel when decided. On the contrary, you are young men about a system that cares about “less valuable victims ,, especially from a troubled community.

Moreover, despite Justice Armitage’s findings and suggestions, Kummanjayi Walker’s family will never be able to reach justice. Rolfe has already prevented the court, and a jury, which is not representative of Achorijine, has already taken him a violent action that caused him to death on the basis of murder, murder, and even defense. Rolfe is trying to make a reservation in the world for profitable opening speeches through the agent at some point. Talking about appealing the findings of the investigation.

In Yuendumu, they feel a little relief that the community members have finally confirmed what they have said for years, and at the same time they feel that the suggestions will be implemented or that they know that the ways of justice for Walker’s death is closed despite these findings. There is a lot of struggling for a community that upsets the death of another young man in the hands of the police.

I read according to reports Kumanjayi White He didn’t even make a crime technically (leaving the store without paying), but simple caught police took it to them Wrestling him on the ground in a very violent hallway Allegedly ended his life. White’s death is also treated as a death in custody, but should I be wondering why it was not directly investigated as murder or murder? Will justice be rejected for white as for Walker? How should community members need to improve and establish positive relationships with these authorities when vulnerable young men continue to be dead?

Meanwhile, after more than thirty years, the Royal Commission’s suggestions for the deaths of Aboriginal in custody continue to collect dust on the shelf of a parliamentary library. Former NT Prime Minister Michael Gunner spoke great in 2019 “Results flowing” from the investigationNevertheless, due to many delays as a result of legal processes, it was no longer around to ensure that these results had achieved. The current Prime Minister Lia Finocchiaro, on the other hand, did not say anything about the findings of the investigation, but rather prefers to focus on imprisoning children at a young age. Indeed, when the political reform does not exist so much, how can everyone hope for their families and communities?

At the end of the day, it should not be too much to ask Aboriginal lives are important. Nevertheless, as the justice system, the political system, the media class and the wider society seem to show us.