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2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback review – this docuseries about an Australian tragedy is shockingly intense
This four-part series about the killing of Kumanjayi Walker by police officer Zachary Rolfe is unquestionably a work of journalistic rigour â but the sheer detail included is both a virtue and a vice
Warning: This article contains reference to Indigenous Australians who have died
The first half of the title of Darren Daleâs four-part documentary series, 2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback, refers to the gap between the first and second of three shots that the police officer Zachary Rolfe fired at 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker, fatally wounding him, in the remote Northern Territory community of Yuendumu in 2019. Three years later, after a five-week trial, Rolfe was found not guilty of murder and cleared of two other charges. Three years after that, Rolfe was found to be racist by a coroner, who couldnât rule out that his attitude played a role in Walkerâs death.
Five stars for the most compelling documentary Australia has produced
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Readers are advised that this article contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died.
In 2019, in the remote outback community Yuendumu, a 19-year-old Warlpiri man, Kumanjayi Walker, was fatally shot by police constable Zachary Rolfe. It happened during a botched arrest just a few days after Walker had escaped from custody, threatened officers with an axe and returned to Yuendumu, which was already on edge after a spate of break-ins. Rolfe was charged with murder, almost immediately bailed and acquitted by a Northern Territory jury. All bar one of the 12-person jury was white.
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2.6 Seconds: new documentary explores the history, grief and looming questions of Kumanjayi Walker’s death
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Some documentaries seek to answer a question. Others, like 2.6 Seconds: Death in the Outback, force us to ask questions that have never been fully resolved.
The title refers to the 2.6-second interval between the first and the second shots fired by former Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe during an attempted arrest on November 9 2019.
The target was 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man Kumanjayi Walker. While those few seconds sit at the climax of the story, 2.6 Seconds demonstrates how the circumstances that led to Walker’s death stretched back much further.
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