The Law Australian Police brutality thread.
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You're defending a constable who twice tasered a 95 yo using a walking frame with a steak knife.
They have opened a homicide investigation.
I think you need to reassess your stance.
She's not even dead
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Homicide always investigate deaths and critical injuries. She is not expected to survive. Time for to admit it's not ok to taser a slow moving 95yo female using a walking frame holding a cerated steak knife
If you can't admit that you're a joke.
They couldn't overpower or move away from a 95year old with a walking frame. How fat and weak must they have been or more likely poorly trained cowards
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Okay so they power her over with a mattress as the Internet tough guy above reckons. Then her arms break because she’s a little stick apparently and she dies anyway.
Lesson learnt: do not approach police with deadly weapons
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She's got dementia , is it still her fault?
Ffs mate.
She's 5"2, weighs 43kg. Was walking towards police at a 'slow pace ' with a walking frame and a steak knife.
How can ya defend that?
How can ya defend that?
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You’re gross.
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All they had to do was shut the door, notify the family and have patience.
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With a taser
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Saying what most are thinking here. Would be cheered for by the masses which just amazes me these idiots continue to carry on like morons harming support for their cause. XR are ****ing clowns
The cops in this story should be laughed out of jobs. Imagine being scared of a 95 year old woman
He said what most people were thinking for sure, and also the police in SA were hardly brutal or harsh towards the XR people. In fact they have been pretty tolerant at the moment.
These XR people are very frustrating, the graffiti attach on the Santos building actually affected a Cafe on the ground floor and not Santos at all. But yet I haven't seen them get thr shit beaten out of them.....yet...
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XR have a right to protest Australia's appalling record on climate, one of the top emmitters in the world.
Cops should not be joking about killing protesters. Cops should not take direction from moronic talkback radio.
If they want to bash someone they should have bashed the anti-vaxers who punched them and their horses.
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Police were called for a reason, followed procedure and remembered their training for dealing with armed attackers who repeatedly disobey direct orders.
Obviously this woman was too much for staff to handle, is possibly known for violence and is likely a repeat offender for police to be requested at the scene.
Obviously this woman was too much for staff to handle, is possibly known for violence and is likely a repeat offender for police to be requested at the scene.
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Then you'd know that dementia patients are unpredictable, especially at night. Dementia patients have killed fellow patients in the aged care setting with brutal acts of violence, such is the insidious and heinous nature of this terrible disease.
I feel for all involved. Anyone who has worked on the floor of either a dementia ward, or an acute mental in-patient setting, would know too well that things can go south very quickly.
I'd argue the senior RN on duty, or the nurse unit manager (on call at that time of night, but able to attend at short notice), would be best equipped to de-escalate any situation as the one described in the media. One on one, in a low stimulus environment, without paramedics, police and fellow pts standing around doing nothing.
A knife wielded by any dementia patient experiencing an episode of behavioral disturbance is most definitely an imminent risk to one's safety if one decided to go hand's on in an attempt to disarm.
It is a shocking story. I feel for everyone involved.
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She wasn't dangerous at all. She had a walking frame. Calling the police was stupid. All they had to was lock her in the room she was in until she fell asleep.
It was a cerated dinner knife, you grab her wrist and pull the knife away, she weighed 43kg. If yr not comfortable doing that, throw a blanket on her.
The moronic cop could of put on his protective glove on and grabbed her wrist.
Any other spin on this is bs imo.
Even the police force is disgusted at what happened if you read the news.
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She was in a room, by herself
She was alone in a “small, confined-space” medical treatment room, with the police officers standing in the doorway, when she began to move towards them, he said.
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She was alone in a “small, confined-space” medical treatment room, with the police officers standing in the doorway, when she began to move towards them, he said.
Use of Taser on 95-year-old could breach police procedures
Police rules for Tasers say they should not be used on the elderly or someone of particularly small body mass, unless exceptional circumstances exist.
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It was a steak knife. It would need a lot of force to injure someone with a steak knife. How strong would a 95 year old lady with a walking frame be?
She was in a room, by herself
She was alone in a “small, confined-space” medical treatment room, with the police officers standing in the doorway, when she began to move towards them, he said.
Use of Taser on 95-year-old could breach police procedures
Police rules for Tasers say they should not be used on the elderly or someone of particularly small body mass, unless exceptional circumstances exist.
That’s not looking good for the police officer. Maybe one confrontation too many.
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I won't hold my breath but perhaps a wider enquiry into the use of tasers might be appropriate following this. If it's thought the right thing to do to use one on a 95 year old women it doesn't take a great imagination to think that there might have been a few other occasions when police could have been a bit trigger happy as well.
