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☆ Australian police officer who Tasered 95-year-old is found guilty of manslaughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian police officer who fatally shocked a 95-year-old care home resident with a Taser gun was found guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday. He shocked Nowland, who was holding a steak knife, with his Taser, police said at the time. The jury found White guilty of the manslaughter of Nowland after deliberating for almost a week, said a spokesperson for the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the state where the incident took place. Manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison in the state. Nowland’s death came in the same week that a police officer in the same state was found guilty of assault after an incident involving a 16-year-old boy from the country’s Indigenous community in 2020.

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☆ Police officer who fatally shocked woman, 95, with a Taser found guilty of manslaughter
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-26 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The court heard she had been cornered in an office by police and paramedics and had refused to put down a steak knife when White deployed his Taser. Video released by the court shows Clare Nowland at the nursing home about 10 minutes before she was shocked by the Taser. Asked for his first impressions of Nowland, White agreed that she was elderly, but took issue with the suggestion she may have been frail. “You see this?” White asked her. The court heard White had the Taser pointed at Nowland, its light shining in her eyes, for one minute before he used it.

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☆ Australian police officer charged with manslaughter over death of 95-year-old woman tasered in nursing home
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —An Australian police officer has been charged with manslaughter after he tasered a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, died in hospital a week after she was tasered at the home in May. A 33-year-old senior constable, Kristian White, is alleged to have tasered Nowland at the home after asking her to drop a steak knife she was holding. The other officer attempted to grab the knife, but Nowland is said to have moved towards them with her walker. Family friend Andrew Thaler said at the time that before the incident Nowland was frail and unable to stand unaided.

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Sydney CNN —A 47-year-old woman has died after being tasered by police in New South Wales in the second deadly incident so far this year involving the weapon in Australia. Speaking on Friday, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner Peter McKenna said tactical police units shot the woman with a bean-bag round, injuring her shoulder. The woman was then shot with a taser before being arrested and walked to an ambulance, McKenna said. She later died in hospital. When she refused to drop the knife, it’s alleged White deployed his taser, causing Nowland to fall to the ground and hit her head.

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☆ Australia taser: 95-year-old woman dies after being tasered in her nursing home
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —A 95-year-old woman who was tasered by police in her Australian nursing home last week has died, police in New South Wales said Wednesday. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, had been in critical condition in hospital with serious head injuries sustained when she fell to the floor after being tasered. New South Wales (NSW) Police Commissioner Karen Webb announced the charges against the unidentified 33-year-old senior constable Wednesday. Earlier this week, Nowland’s family released a statement asking for privacy, and thanking people for their support. “Clare is the loving and gentle natured matriarch of the Nowland family,” said the statement according to CNN affiliate 9 News.

☆ Great-grandmother, 95, tasered by officer in Australia had walking frame and knife, police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Hilary Whiteman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Brisbane, Australia CNN —Homicide detectives in Australia are investigating why a police officer felt so threatened by a 95-year-old woman clutching a walking aid and steak knife that he needed to Taser her inside her nursing home. I can’t take it any further as to what was going through anyone’s mind when he used the Taser,” Cotter said. “This is an outrage.”How it unfoldedPolice say they were called to the address around 4:15 a.m. on Wednesday to reports of a resident with a knife. Two officers found Nowland in her room, with a knife in her hand, Cotter said during the briefing on Friday. “It is fair to say that she was armed with that knife.

☆ Police in Australia Use Stun Gun on 95-Year-Old Woman
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Australian police are investigating why an experienced officer used a Taser on a 95-year-old woman who had approached him “at a slow pace” while holding a steak knife. The woman, Clare Nowland, who is 5-foot-2 and 95 pounds, uses a walker and has dementia. She was left in critical condition after a senior constable used the weapon on her on Wednesday morning in the care facility where she lives, causing her to fall and hit her head, according to the police. “At the time she was Tasered, she was approaching police — but it is fair to say, at a slow pace,” Peter Cotter, the New South Wales Police assistant commissioner, said at a news conference on Friday. “She had a walking frame, but she had a knife.”The news conference was held after people in the community, rights activists and advocates for those with disabilities expressed outrage, asking whether the officer’s use of force had been necessary.

☆ Australian grandmother tasered by police in critical condition
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, May 19 (Reuters) - A 95-year-old grandmother who Australian police tasered at a retirement home is in critical condition as the homicide squad join a high-profile investigation into the incident, police said on Friday. "At the time she was tasered, she was approaching police but it is fair to say at a slow pace," Cotter said during a press conference. Nowland, who suffers from dementia, had wandered the facility for several hours and taken the knife from the kitchen. She is in a critical condition in hospital, fading in and out of consciousness, sparking a public uproar over the incident. Body cameras recorded the encounter but it was not in the public interest to release the footage because of the investigation, he said.

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