95 year old women suffering from dementia are becoming a menace against the frail vulnerable cops worldwide it seems. Moreover, the police refuse to release bodycam footage and the "Police Commissioner" even states she doesn't need to see it.
Outcry as Australian police Taser 95-year-old care home residentAn elderly Australian woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after being Tasered by police at a care home.
Officers were called to Yallambee Lodge in Cooma, New South Wales (NSW), after reports that 95-year-old Clare Nowland was carrying a knife.
The early morning incident has sparked outcry, over what advocates say was a disproportionate response.
The New South Wales police chief has said an investigation is under way.
Ms Nowland was found "armed" with a steak knife at the care home - which is in the town of Cooma about 114km (71 miles) south of Canberra - in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Assistant Police Commissioner Peter Cotter told media on Friday.
Two officers and care home staff tried to de-escalate the situation, before she began approaching police - "it is fair to say at a slow pace" - and was Tasered.
"She had a walking frame. But she had a knife," he said.
Family friend Andrew Thaler claimed
Ms Nowland was struck twice - in the chest and the back - before she fell, suffering a fractured skull and a serious brain bleed.
Her family are already grieving as they do not expect her to survive, he told BBC News.
Australian police say they will not release bodycam footage of the moment an elderly woman with dementia was Tasered by an officer. NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she was "not sure" why there were calls for the footage to be released.
"I am not sure why they want to see it," she told reporters at a press conference.
"Body-worn video is subject to legislative requirements around the surveillance devices act and other things, so it is not routine and we don't intend to release it, unless there is a process at the end of this that would allow it to be released."
Ms Webb said she had not seen the video but had heard audio from the footage. She said she does not "see it necessary" for her to view it.
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