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If you approach anyone Remember always There is seven metres To be safe From a blade He was a violent offender Who beat his girlfriend often And he broke the law Acts his community would always defend He caused the Medical Centre To be closed down And the staff were evacuated Away from the town He confronted police And brandished an axe So he ran into the bush Not taking a look back So reinforcements were sent to the town To bring him into custody was the plan The police found him in a house He gave a false name knowing he was a wanted man But Sergeant Eberl and Constable Rolfe weren’t fooled And arrested Walker as a wanted man But Walker struggled and stabbed both with scissors Wanting to escape them as his demand Rolfe in defence shot Walker Then Eberl and Walker fell down Eberl was fighting for his life And Rolfe fired twice defending Eberl on the ground The scissors were taken from Walker And he was rendered first aid Then taken to the Police Station Where Walker’s life away did fade The story took a twist for the worst And Zach Rolfe was charged with murder and more The first shot was within the law But the second and third were an unlawful score Chief Minister Gunner said there’d be consequences And Zach Rolfe was put through Two years of hell waiting for his day When the truth would be told too The trial started and time and again It was shown that Rolfe took action by his training But the Prosecution tried hard And finally Zach Rolfe was found not guilty with the jury acquitting But the story did not end The Yuendumu Community still wanted An eye for an eye and cried out For revenge for Walker was shouted Commissioner Chalker still wanted his pound of flesh And put Zach Rolfe on annual leave Serving him with breaches of regulation So the story continues on to the Coroners Court if you please So the court jury process acquitted Rolfe But questions remain In whether Gunner and Chalker interfered with process In charging Rolfe with murder Most think that justice has been done When Zach Rolfe was acquitted in the Supreme Court But now it seems the process carries on So where does the truth lie? © Paul Warren Poetry
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