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Australian Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Taser Incident with 95-Year-Old<\/strong><\/p>\n An Australian police officer, Kristian James Samuel White, has been convicted of manslaughter for using a Taser on a 95-year-old nursing home resident. The verdict was delivered by a jury in Sydney after they deliberated for 20 hours.<\/p>\n White, who is currently out on bail, could face up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n The incident occurred in May 2023, when Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother suffering from dementia and using a walker, refused to drop a steak knife she was holding. White discharged his Taser at her, causing Nowland to fall and later passing away a week after the incident in a hospital.<\/p>\n At the time, police stated that Nowland\u2019s injuries were due to her hitting her head on the floor and not directly from the electric shock of the Taser.<\/p>\n In court, footage showed White saying, \u201cnah, bugger it\u201d just before he deployed the Taser, despite colleagues having instructed Nowland multiple times to drop the knife. White claimed he believed anyone with a knife posed a danger.<\/p>\n After the eight-day trial, the jury did not accept the defense’s argument that the Taser’s use was a reasonable response to the situation involving the 100-pound elderly woman. The prosecutor described White’s actions as "utterly unnecessary and obviously excessive."<\/p>\n Following the verdict, New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said that the court’s findings indicate that Clare Nowland died as a result of the officer’s actions. She extended her condolences to Nowland’s family and noted that the police had recently reviewed their Taser policies, although no changes had been implemented.<\/p>\n Nowland, who lived at Yallambee Lodge nursing home in Cooma, was beloved by her family, leaving behind eight children, 24 grandchildren, and 31 great-grandchildren. The case has sparked widespread discussion about the use of Tasers by law enforcement in the region.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australian Police Officer Found Guilty of Manslaughter After Taser Incident with 95-Year-Old An Australian police officer, Kristian James Samuel White, has been convicted of manslaughter for using a Taser on a 95-year-old nursing home resident. The verdict was delivered by a jury in Sydney after they deliberated for 20 hours. White, who is currently out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}