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Officer's job under review, homicide squad called in, as police pledge robust review into elderly taser incident
ABC News Australia ^ | 5/19/2023 | Sean Tarek Goodwin, Maryanne Taouk

Posted on 05/18/2023 8:55:48 PM PDT by Nextrush

The police officer involved in a critical incident where a 95-year-old woman was tasered is still on the job, despite having his duties under review.

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland is in a critical condition at Cooma Base Hospital after the incident at the Yallambee Lodge, where she fell and hit her head after being tasered by police.

The senior constable with 12 years of experience was with his partner when they were called to the aged care home in Cooma after reports of a patient with a knife.

NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Peter Cotter said the elderly woman was armed with a steak knife.

"Negotiations commenced with Clare to essentially drop the knife, for whatever reason, she did not do that," he said.

Deputy Commissioner Cotter confirmed the great-grandmother used a walking frame to approach the two responding officers "slowly" as the state's homicide squad began an investigation into the incident.

"At the time she was tasered, she was approaching police. Is is fair to say at a slow pace. She had a walking frame. But she had a knife"...

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: australia; clarenowland; covid; montypython; police; taser
This 95-year-old woman suffering from dementia using a walker while holding a knife was that dangerous.

"We must protect law enforcement" is the mantra.

The New South Wales Police Down Under cracked down on protests against the COVID lockdowns no so long ago.

I am no fan of this law enforcement agency. The next US POTUS should sanction them over COVID.

There was a Monty Python skit years ago about "The Walker Brigade" you see the "unit" in walkers slowly crossing a field with explosions blasting about them "The Walker Brigade" wiped out. That Python skit me of this *hit.

1 posted on 05/18/2023 8:55:48 PM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Two officers? They could have used a broom to dislodge the knife from her hand. America is going down fast. . . getting back up may not even be a possibility.


2 posted on 05/18/2023 9:13:50 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeinJesus.com & https://www.patburt.com/)
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To: Maudeen

Australia - akready down the tubes. With the peasants disarmed, the Lords come out to play.


3 posted on 05/18/2023 9:20:06 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Maudeen

This happened in Australia...

Anyway, why would they need a broom? One could have just grabbed her wrist from behind!

Tapering a 95 year old woman using a walker?


4 posted on 05/18/2023 9:24:41 PM PDT by Chicory
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To: Chicory

I know . . .after I hit the button I thought, “why did I make that silly comment?”


5 posted on 05/18/2023 9:30:02 PM PDT by Maudeen (https://www.ThereIsHopeinJesus.com & https://www.patburt.com/)
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To: Nextrush

Where were her care givers; nurses? Why were the police called?


6 posted on 05/18/2023 9:46:55 PM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Be calm and act.)
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To: Nextrush

“…but, she had a knife”. Australia’s finest?


7 posted on 05/18/2023 11:35:45 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: muir_redwoods; dfwgator

[“…but, she had a knife”. Australia’s finest?]

But what if she had a banana? Or a bunch of grapes?!

A 95-year-old woman in a walker.

Danger! Danger!


8 posted on 05/19/2023 3:16:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Maudeen

And people demand that we back the blue.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 3:16:20 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Maudeen

“They could have used a broom to dislodge the knife“

That’s as comically girly as tasing her. If you can’t take a knife away from a geriatric in a walker., QUIT!


10 posted on 05/19/2023 3:46:31 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Maudeen

I have done the same, late night posting, eh?

The reality is that just grabbing her is what they should have done instead of *tasing* her!

How concerned about your own safety over that of others can you be?


11 posted on 05/19/2023 4:58:13 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: Nextrush

Laws come from God, they are God’s will...

No matter how small... Lawbreakers are evil tools and do the work of Satan... So they are unbelievers and NOT HUMAN.

Law Enforcers are brave saints and angels who are tasked with taking up the sword and doing God’s punishment against the evil tools of Satan...

Since Law Enforcers are doing the Lord’s work they are always righteous and never wrong in this war against Satan’s evil...

There are no rules in this war with those who do Satan’s evil, whatever violent means it takes to defeat the evil of Satan is moral and just...

Once accused they are considered guilty of doing the work of Satan and therefore are not humans deserving any human rights. When you are dealing with Satan you do not ask questions or take any chances. God wills it...


12 posted on 05/19/2023 5:26:20 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

?


13 posted on 05/19/2023 5:38:25 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

That is why this stuff is accepted by society. Laws come from God and LE are doing God’s work.


14 posted on 05/19/2023 5:53:04 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

So...
Are you saying God told them to taze the 95 year old lady?


15 posted on 05/19/2023 7:09:52 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

No, I am saying that “society” accepts them and refuses to condemn them for tazing a 95 year old lady because they enforce law and law comes from God.


16 posted on 05/19/2023 7:14:31 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Nextrush

I guess backing away and locking her in room by herself never occurred to them.


17 posted on 05/19/2023 7:20:46 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: Openurmind

I hope I’m just mis interpreting what you are saying, but...
Are you trying to say that God approves of the cops tasing the 95 year old woman?


18 posted on 05/19/2023 8:20:18 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

“I hope I’m just mis interpreting what you are saying, but...
Are you trying to say that God approves of the cops tasing the 95 year old woman?”

Yes you are misinterpreting... Let me put it in context from the source question asked in another forum. Not God, but it those faithful who hypocritically claim God who approve of these abuses of authority. so they continue to happen, faithful society supports it because it is “rooted in Righteousness” in their minds.

A member asked this and it was answered logically based on factual observations of society:

“Why does a police officer in a devoutly religious local community have the power to beat someone into a pool of blood over some minor infraction?”

Because of extremism rooted in that devout faithful subconscious.

Laws come from God, they are God’s will...

No matter how small... Lawbreakers are evil tools and do the work of Satan... So they are unbelievers and NOT HUMAN.

Law Enforcers are brave saints and angels who are tasked with taking up the sword and doing God’s punishment against the evil tools of Satan...

Since Law Enforcers are doing the Lord’s work they are always righteous and never wrong in this war against Satan’s evil...

There are no rules in this war with those who do Satan’s evil, whatever violent means it takes to defeat the evil of Satan is moral and just...

Once accused they are considered guilty of doing the work of Satan and therefore are not humans deserving any human rights. Society approves that when you are dealing with Satan you do not ask questions or take any chances, destroy it. God wills it...


19 posted on 05/19/2023 9:25:09 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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