Documentary shows police footage of Kumanjayi Walker's final hours
SBS and NITV release body-worn footage of Kumanjayi Walker's fatal 2019 shooting by now-former officer Zachary Rolfe.
SBS and NITV made a documentary called 2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback that shows police body-worn footage of Kumanjayi Walker's death. Walker, 19, was shot by now-former Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe in November 2019.
Rolfe was later acquitted on all charges. Walker's cousin, Samara Nangala Fernandez Brown, leads the film.
She fought to show the footage. But it breaks cultural rules in her Warlpiri family to display images of the dead.
The documentary includes Brown's personal recordings of wrongs she says her community faced after Walker's death. Brown says the footage is needed to truly show what happened to her cousin.
- November 2019
- Date of death
- 19 years old
- Walker's age
- More than 600 since 1991
- Deaths in custody
- Zachary Rolfe acquitted on all charges
- Officer outcome
Why it mattersSeven years after Walker's death, Brown hopes this documentary will force a reckoning. She wants people to connect Walker's death to a wider crisis. More than 600 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have died in police custody in Australia since 1991. Most Australians don't know this is happening.
