Hours earlier, a 33-year-old senior constable was charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and common assault over the incident.
A 95-year-old great-grandmother died on Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, the police said.
"It is with great sadness we confirm the passing of 95-year-old Clare Nowland in Cooma tonight," New South Wales state police said in a statement.Nowland had 24 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren, the police said. Officers had been called to Yallambee Lodge nursing home in southern New South Wales by staff who told them that a woman was"armed with a knife".Police said they urged Nowland to drop a serrated steak knife before she moved towards them"at a slow pace" with her walking frame, prompting one officer to fire his taser at her.
"The tasering of Ms Nowland has sparked a community outrage that shows how desperately we need police reform," state Greens MP Sue Higginson said this week.
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