Kristian White was sentenced to 450 hours of community service and placed under the supervision of a corrections officer for two years for manslaughter.
“Mr. White made by what any measure was a terrible mistake,” Justice Ian Harrison said in the New South Wales state Supreme Court.
Prosecutors had called for a prison term in the killing of Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother who suffered dementia, but the judge said such a punishment was disproportionate.
“It is … at the lower end of seriousness of crimes amounting to wrongful death,” Harrison said.
Explain to me how electrocuting a frail 95 y/o demented woman to death ranks ‘on the lower end’ of crimes involving fatalities. Seriously, explain it to me like I’m 3, because I can’t believe that this statement was issued by a judge.
Because that’s not what he did.
The woman was holding a steak knife and refused to drop it, he shot her with the taser which caused her to fall - as tasers are designed to - but she hit her head and died a week later in the hospital. That’s an injury that is always a risk when using tasers against anyone.
Should they be used against 95 year olds with walkers even if they do refuse to drop the knife and continue menacingly inching towards you, that’s an entirely different issue.
i dont think it justifies it. a trained cop can easily wrestle a knife from a 95-yr old.
Anyone with a heavy blanket could do it, though the fall and head injury risk might be kinda similar.
They use big mattress things in Japan I think.
Easy for you to say.
pulling the trigger on a taser and killing your granny is also pretty easy apparently
The whole point of a TAZER is it incapacitates without killing, are you seriously suggesting this was intentional?
Remember, it wasn’t the shock that killed her, it was the subsequent fall.
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Nah, that’s some eugenics bullshit. People don’t lose value just because their health is failing. They’re still people.
What her health does change is the threat that she posed.
Explain why you as a trained officer need a taser to subdue a 95 year old frail woman who needs a walker.
Just literally take a step back, or grab her wrist. It’s not hard.
It’s not eugenics, it’s agism.
Eugenics would be about people with bad genes, like downs syndrome or autism.
I think it can fall under the same umbrella if their health is failing - it certainly follows the same logic of getting rid of the useless eaters.
But strictly speaking it doesn’t affect the gene pool, so you’re right about that.