2023-05-24 14:50:19
A Australian The 95-year-old died on Wednesday, a week after being stunned by a police officer at her retirement home, police said. The elderly lady, Clare Nowland, “died peacefully in hospital shortly after 7 p.m., surrounded by family and loved ones,” New South Wales state police said in a statement.
The manner in which this pensioner, suffering from dementia, had been brought under control shocked Australia and made headlines for several days. According to the police officers involved, they had been called to subdue a woman “armed with a knife” in the retirement home. They claim they urged Clare Nowland to drop her knife but she walked towards them ‘at a slow pace’ using a walker, prompting one of the officers to shoot him with his taser.
Australian Senator David Shoebridge has asked the police to release body camera footage. “The public has the right to know what the police did and it cannot be hidden in a private investigation where the police are investigating the police,” he stressed. But police later said the footage would not be made public. “I don’t quite see why they want to see them,” defended Karen Webb, police commissioner for New South Wales. Investigation about using the taser “will take time,” she said.
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