QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoPolice pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hearswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up1309arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1305arrow-down1external-linkPolice pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hearswww.theguardian.comQuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square28linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squareHanrahan@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·11 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-down1·11 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