QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agoPolice pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hearswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1306arrow-down14
arrow-up1302arrow-down1external-linkPolice pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hearswww.theguardian.comQuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·18 days agoThis reminded me.of this incident in Australia where a 95 yr old.woman with dementia using a walker was holding a knife and they tasered and killed her https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66229582
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·18 days agoOr the time Portland police tased a 71 year old unarmed blind woman: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2004/04/city_pays_excessive_force_clai.html
This reminded me.of this incident in Australia where a 95 yr old.woman with dementia using a walker was holding a knife and they tasered and killed her
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66229582
Or the time Portland police tased a 71 year old unarmed blind woman:
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2004/04/city_pays_excessive_force_clai.html