Agent with taser gun Europa Press Contact Cecilia Fa | EUROPAPRESS
When the woman refused to drop the knife she was carrying and “slowly” approached the officers in a walker, the officer shot her in the chest and back with his taser gun.
Australian authorities have filed charges against a police officer who He stabbed a 95-year-old woman with a knife in the nursing home, who died a day earlier in the hospital where she was admitted due to a skull fracture, the police confirmed this Thursday, according to Efe.
The officer faces three charges of grievous bodily harm for reckless imprudence, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault in the Australian courts, the New South Wales State Police explained in a statement.
The officer, identified by the media as Kristian White, will appear in court on July 5 in the town of Cooma, about 430 kilometers southwest of Sydney.
The incident happened on Wednesday last week when an officer and a colleague went to Yallambee Nursing Home in Cooma, following a call that an elderly woman, named Clare Nowland, who suffered from dementia, was “armed” with a knife.
When the woman refused to drop the knife and approached the policemen “slowly” in the walker, the policeman hit him in the chest and back with an electric shocker whereupon the grandmother, who weighs about 43 kilograms and is 1.57 centimeters tall, fell and hit her head.
After an event that shocked the countrythe old woman was admitted to the hospital with a fractured skull, where she died the day before, according to Efe.
The Australian police, who have already suspended with pay the agent who stunned the old woman, continue to investigate the facts.
This case once again highlighted the controversial use of tasers by Australian policequestioned by organizations that guarantee rights such as Amnesty International, according to Efe.
In 2012, Brazilian student Roberto Curti lost his life in Sydney after receiving 14 electric shocks from police, in an incident in which the country’s court in 2014 found four police officers guilty of excessive force that resulted in the death of Curti, who had suffered a psychotic episode. after taking a psychotropic substance.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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