A 95-year-old woman was in critical condition Friday, two days after police shocked her with a stun gun as she approached them in an Australian nursing home with a walking frame and a steak knife. The extraordinary police takedown of dementia sufferer Clare Nowland in Cooma, New South Wales, has prompted a high-level police internal investigation.
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She has died !
Typical police robot 🤖
😡
Australia is a police state
Now it's murder, the victim died this evening (Wednesday 24 May)
Well done NSWPOL.
As someone correctly pointed out to me on the weekend, NSWPOL will sit around and do SFA for 17hrs while a 50 yr old male terrorist armed with a firearm took hostages in the Lindt Cafe, and only acted when the terrorist murdered an innocent hostage, killing another innocent hostage in the process, yet the same NSWPOL has no problem murdering a 95yo woman using a walking frame within minutes of arriving on scene.
Shame on you NSWPOL, shame.
Hopefully the worldwide media will now expose you for what you truly are, FN Cowards
I don't like this woman.
Just because she's 95 doesn't make her above the law. We live in an equalitarian society, so everyone should be treated the same
The Australian police tackle peaceful protesters and taze Alzheimer's patients with walkers. They're some of the biggest losers on the face of the earth.
Why didnt they uses the knightsticks like normal cops
Well, it is not comforting to learn that Murderous Thugs with Guns or Tasers can be found all over the world. An old woman hobbling on her feet approaches them with an unsteady knife and these brave young men are convinced that the woman presents a lethal threat to them. Live by the gun, Shoot by the Taser. Perhaps these cowardly cops should run home and tase their mothers. And the fool speaking should seriously contemplate his competency to train and lead his men.
Australian police is like the Waffen SS only fit for service in concentration camps
She saw white men in law enforcement for what most of them are: A threat,she reacted. She got tazed….she should not have resisted……🤭.
That white lady should have complied. STOP RESISTING!!!!!
All cops got home safe n sound..
Woah, thought this was America for a sec.
Disgusting behavior from my country's police they bring shame on all of us .Who harms a 95 year old woman in a walking frame how could you fear such a person these police are cowards and weak
White males are SO, SO fragile and weak.
Once I thought it could be fun to visit Austrailia, but seeing this, and remembering how the police treated people down there during the socalled pandemic, I think it is enough I saw the former East Germany a few times, and then had my dose of seeing a policestate.
The steakkknife granny..
If you cannot disarm a frail 95 year old woman without resorting to a taser, you are in the wrong job.
granny killer that's stood down with pay ……..so sad that police are to week to help this woman with her health.
Australian cowardly police protecting cowardly Aussie pigs . ! This Is just one more reason the never earned there ANZAC status .
All the officers should lose there jobs. If you are afraid of a 95 yr old then you cant be a cop.
When I was in college I was a nurse's aid and had one of my resident brandish a knife against me. I didn't call the cops. We chatted for a while until he sat down, clearly confused. I asked if he needed some juice from the kitchen, grabbed the knife from him on the way by, and returned with his drink. I see dumbassery is not just confined to the US.
NSW Police the best money can buy
The officer who shot her with the tazer was suspended
They feared for their lives. What crap.
He left out the bit where Clare got real angry and her skin started to turn green, leaving the officers with NO OTHER choice but to tase her. He also left out the bit where the mental disease thats overtaking the US LE has made its way to Australia.
is he actually trying to make a case that this was justified? defund the police
The officer responsible has bee flagged by the department …yeah..as a future leader…
Top reasons police officer gave for tasering 95 year 9ld.
1.she was holding a steak knife …there was butter on it..
2. She looked 94….
3. I had to get back to the station….lunch was on..
4. I'm a police officer ..I can do what I want.
5. She was a suspect in a 1962 robbery.
6. She disrespected me.
7..her walker had bald wheels…
8..I needed one more taser incident to become inspector.
9…nobody ever told me it was wrong.
10…I took an oath to fight crime wherever and whenever I see it..
This officer watched too much US cops YouTube videos
I originally thought it was an Australian women in the US since we have countless incidents of cops resorting to excessive force. Are we contagious? I hope she recovers soon
I will approve this act only if policeman who fired a taser was also 95 years old
The only danger with that knife was her falling on it. The cops made sure she was hurt regardless-so long as none of them are it’s fine right?
It totally speaks for it self the police are low life the lows of the low scum
What a horrible thing that police officer did she looks like she weighs 90 something pounds and you’re going to tase a 90 something year old woman! I can’t even stand to listen to this cop!!!!!!😡
You are so right that poor weak elderly 95 year might have eaten you big strong brave men alive. Maybe she did think you were beef? What a disgrace excuse it any way you want a 95 year old are you kidding me?
Shame on the policeman! The poor scared 95 yr old lady was in a stage of shock. The police is unprofessionally, ridiculously & brainlessly reacted. The NSW police chief should retrain the staff.
😲I hope he will get and feel better and recover quickly soon.
I’m Australian and I’m completely ashamed this is absolutely disgusting, it’s shameful there are so many other ways they could’ve approached this.
This is why bola wraps were invented.
Now if the old lady wasn't tasered and she ended up stabbing one of the nurses, then the police wouldve failed at protecting and serving. The cops made the right decision no matter what age the lady was she could have unalived somebody with that knife.
The nurse shouldn't have phoned the police in the first place!
She shouldn't have resisted.
This is part of the reason America has a gun problem. Give someone a tool and ask them to solve a problem they will at some point consider using the tool to solve the problem. Even if you give someone a non leathal tool they will think of it as an option. If she was a threat to herself or others, the officer solved the problem but not all solutions are the best solution, heck a heavy blanket would have worked well enough in this case or just heavy body armor and a strong hug… tragic.