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Sky News' Matt Cunningham gives Katie an update on the Zachary Rolfe murder trial · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: And now joining me on the line. I'm very conscious
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  Speaker 1: of his time. It is Matt Cunningham, Sky News bureau
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  Speaker 1: chief for the Northern Territory. Good morning to you, Matt. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: a very well busy day for you, mate. Once again,
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  Speaker 1: they're at the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. We're up to day seven now in this
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  Speaker 2: murder trial of Comfortable Zachary Rolf, who we know it's
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  Speaker 2: pleaded not guilty to that one charge of murder and
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  Speaker 2: the backup charges of manslaughter and engaging in a violent
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  Speaker 2: act causing death over the shooting death of Cumenjoy Walker
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  Speaker 2: and Namo on the nights of November twenty nineteen. Now, look, yesterday, Katie,
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  Speaker 2: we heard evidence from a couple of Comfortable role friends
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  Speaker 2: and fellow police officers from Our Springs, including Comfortable Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Hanson and Comfortable Brianna Body. Now, these were officers who
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  Speaker 2: were part of his general Patrol Duties group in our Strings.
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  Speaker 2: They went part of the team that went the immediate
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  Speaker 2: response team that went to you in the move. They
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  Speaker 2: were part of his in our Springs. They're both asked
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  Speaker 2: about this theme that's been running through this trial, this
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  Speaker 2: phrase that's youth in police training, knife equals gone, and
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  Speaker 2: both of those officers confirmed that in their training they
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  Speaker 2: are taught that when a police officer is confronted by
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  Speaker 2: an offender with a knife or a blade or an
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  Speaker 2: edged weapon, their training is to draw their firearm and
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  Speaker 2: to be prepared to use it. Now, the defense said
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  Speaker 2: at the beginning of this trial that that would be
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  Speaker 2: something it would be pressing home. Of course, we know
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  Speaker 2: that in that confrontation where Comen Joe Walker was shot,
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  Speaker 2: he'd stabbed Comestable Rolf in the shoulder with a pair
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  Speaker 2: of surgical scissors, comes to Rolf, then fires three shots. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution and the defense, as we've discussed Katie, agreed
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  Speaker 2: that that first shot was reasonable and necessary under the circumstances.
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  Speaker 2: What this case hangs on is those second and third shots.
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  Speaker 2: They're the shots that the prosecution say we're not eagerly justified.
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  Speaker 2: There was two point six seconds between shot one and
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  Speaker 2: shot two, and the prosecution says that between that two
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  Speaker 2: point six seconds the situation had significantly changed. They say
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  Speaker 2: that at that point Comfortable Ros's partner, Comfortable Adamy Burle,
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  Speaker 2: had Cumen Joe Walker pinned down on the ground and
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  Speaker 2: they therefore, they say that those shots were not reasonable
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  Speaker 2: or necessary. We're going to hear more event evidence from
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  Speaker 2: police officers today, Katie. In either today or in the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of days, we're going to going to hear
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  Speaker 2: from Comfortable Adamy Burle, who was comfortable Roll's partner, who
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  Speaker 2: went into that house and in the mood with him.
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  Speaker 2: And this week we're also expected to hear some evidence
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  Speaker 2: from some members of the community.
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  Speaker 1: From you in the Moon Well, Matt Cunningham, no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be an incredibly busy week. We'll try
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  Speaker 1: and catch up with you again throughout the week. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for the cross this morning. No thank
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  Speaker 1: you