New South Wales now has its own version of the George Floyd-style police brutality case. Only the person is white and aged, so there will be no street protests here. The story involves a 95-year-old lady suffering from dementia, in a nursing home, on a walking frame. She got agitated and grabbed, I would imagine slowly, a steak knife. Nursing staff rang the police, because it must have been too difficult to quietly talk to her, or offer her an ice-cream (she drops the knife to take it), or just take the knife out of her hand. But police had the answer, and tasered her. And now this poor lady is receiving end-of-life care in Cooma district hospital, after being critically injured when she hit the floor after being tasered. It is a deeply disturbing story.
If this lady dies, will there be charges laid against the officer, or is this the last we hear of this? The story made me both sad, and angry. I dread going into a nursing home, and hope the good Lord sees fit to take me before that time. At my age, it may not be long, but I have lived a full life.