Giving room instead of tasing gran 'least of all evils'
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Source: 9News
Published: 2026-05-15 13:42 UTC+10:00
Section: National
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Crime & Justice, Military & Defence, Australia
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Snippet:
While there was a risk that a 95-year-old with dementia could hurt herself with a knife, an inquest has heard that leaving her to calm down would have been preferable to shooting her with a Taser.Then-senior constable Kristian James Samuel White fired his weapon at the great-grandmother after being called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home at Cooma in southern NSW early on the morning of May 17, 2023.Clare Nowland, who had symptoms of dementia, had taken two steak knives from
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