Tasering of 95-year-old 'grossly disproportionate' say police
An Australian police officer charged with tasering a 95-year-old care home resident acted in a "grossly disproportionate" way, prosecutors in the case say.
New court documents allege Kristian White said "bugger it" before firing as she slowly advanced using a walker.Details of the incident in the town of Cooma - about 114km south of Canberra - have been outlined for the first time in police facts tendered to court. Twice, the dementia patient was asked by a nurse to drop the knives, police say, to which she replied "no".After failing to reach Ms Nowland's family, staff called emergency services with the intention of having an ambulance come to sedate her, the police facts say.After police and ambulance workers arrived on the scene, Ms Nowland began moving "very slowly" on her walker towards them with the remaining knife raised.
Ms Nowland suffered a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed from falling and hitting her head after she was tasered.
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