We’ve followed the trial of Zachary Rolfe, the Northern Territory constable accused of murdering 19yo Kumanjayi Walker in the remote town of Yuendumu in 2019, so we wanted to cover off the verdict. Late on Friday afternoon, a jury acquitted Rolfe of all charges after 7 hours of deliberation. The 5-week trial heard that Rolfe had been stabbed in the shoulder by Walker with scissors, and Walker’s moves towards his partner led Rolfe to shoot the Indigenous teenager 3 times. Prosecutors argued that the first shot was justified, but the 2nd and 3rd shots amounted to murder. After the verdict, Rolfe said “a lot of people are hurting today”, and later said he was “thrown under the bus” by NT Police and a botched investigation. And Walker’s devastated family stood with a senior elder Ned Jampinjinpa Hargreaves, who asked “when are we going to get justice?” That’s not the end of things – a coronial inquest will start later this year.