Tactical officers and police had tried to negotiate with an axe-wielding woman near Newcastle for nine hours before she later died after being tasered.
New South Wales Police were called to a unit complex on Mitchell Street in Stockton on Thursday about 12:30pm after calls about a woman frightening locals with a hatchet.
Officers were finally able to get inside the unit nine hours later about 9:45pm where they used"tactical options", such as a taser, to arrest the woman. "It’s a less than lethal option used by law enforcement agencies all around the world," Asst Comm McKenna said in a Friday press conference. There has been increasing concerns around the use of the police weapon after great-grandmother Clare Nowland, 95, died after she fell back when hit by a taser in May.
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