No, Police can’t taser 95 year olds

News.com.au reports:

A police officer has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a 95-year-old woman after he said “bugger it” and fired his service Taser at her in a rural nursing home. 

Clare Nowland died of injuries sustained when Senior Constable Kristian White, 34, discharged the weapon at her chest in the Yallambee Lodge nursing home in Cooma on May 17 last year. 

The jury heard he issued several warnings as she approached him with both hands on her walking frame and holding a knife, before he said “bugger it” and fired the weapon at her. 

If a police officer can’t disarm a 48 kg 95 year old on a walker without using a taser, they should not be a police officer.

It is a just verdict.

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