Australian supermarket giant Coles is expected to appear at a coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 24-year-old Warlpiri man in an Alice Springs supermarket earlier this year.

Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their family.

Kumanjayi White died after being restrained by two plain-clothed police officers in an aisle of Coles following what police allege was a confrontation with security guards inside the supermarket.

The death in custody in May this year sparked protests across Australia .

On Thursday, Northern Territory Coroner Elisabeth Armitage held a directions hearing in Alice Springs Local Court where she named the parties expected to give

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