Thread: Outcry as Australian police Taser 95-year-old care home resident

Staff at the aged care facility called authorities to the address after finding Ms Nowland holding a steak knife and standing with her walking frame at 4am.

So why the fcuk didn't the staff at the care home disarm her when she was first caught carrying the knife????

95-year-old Clare Nowland tasered by NSW police dies
AP
24 May, 2023
A 95-year-old woman who was tasered by an Australian police officer has died.

Nowland, who had dementia, received palliative care in a hospital in Cooma, New South Wales. She fractured her skull in a fall on Wednesday last week after Constable Kristian White discharged a taser in her retirement home.

The violence against an elderly and incapacitated woman has sparked national debate about the police use of tasers in such circumstances and the competence of aged care staff. Police are allowed to use tasers when lives are in danger.

White was ordered on Wednesday to appear in court on July 5 on charges of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault, a police statement said.

The charges are likely to upgraded

Originally Posted by prawnograph

The charges are likely to upgraded

Keep the violence-related charges and add manslaughter.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

So why the fcuk didn't the staff at the care home disarm her when she was first caught carrying the knife????

they all mustve been scared shitless by a knife wielding zimmer frame Granny. And they were new south wales police. Better known for breaking the law than upholding it.