The police clearly have an issue with behaving lawfully and honestly.

There is now an update on that event: [abc.net.au]

@anglophone Thanks for the update. The police are clearly still in denial re their reprehensible actions. Hopefully public opinion will encourage a rethink.

@Zealandia Australia has a long history of employing liars, rapists and murderers in position of power. This observation is not limited to just the police. I expect the the person responsible will be charged with manslaughter, found guilty, and sentenced to two years imprisonment, possibly suspended.

There will be an inquiry which will probably be a whitewash that is shelved. The real question, which will probably be totally ignored, and putting it in to Australian vernacular, is "Which dumb cunts put such ignorant murderous louts into uniforms in the first place?".

@anglophone Yeah, exactly. The building manager of my apartment building is an old school ex cop and in kiwi/Oz parlance he’s an alky bastard. No interest in fire safety procedures at all so putting residents at risk. Plus rude and disrespectful despite me always being polite to him. At least I didn’t react to his provocative behaviour and get down in the gutter like him.

Wanker is retiring end of June , so happy to see him go.

I have worked/ consulted in Nursing homes, aged care facilities.
A patient pushing a wheelie walker does not have the reach to cause much damage, that aside, Standard practise is to distract the offender and take action accordingly. eg one officer getting behind the offender and disarming her gently. (in extreme aggressive cases. Mostly with dementia patients, take them back to an earlier time in their lives and ask them to help the situation now. The confusion and inner conflict alone gives time to disarm the patient.
It also says a lot about the quality of the staff at the nursing home.
Then again if all you pay is peanuts, the best you can expect is monkeys. Aged care workers earn well below the poverty line Australia wide, yet have similar responsibility to pilot. go figure

The police have obviously taken a leaf out of the American law enforcement handbook here. The page that says "shoot first, ask question later, and dead men tell no tales"!

@vocaloldfart It is a sad state of affairs when the most vulnerable are the high-risk targets. We live in an age where profit outweighs life and the people we vote to protect us, fail us.