'Why?': Outcry after 16-year-old girl with cerebral palsy tasered by Queensland police

Police have tasered a Queensland schoolgirl who has cerebral palsy, angering her mother who says the teen has significant physical limitations.

Stock photograph of a Queensland Police Officer with his hand on a taser Source: AAP

Source: AAP

A Queensland mum is demanding answers after police tasered her teenage daughter, who has cerebral palsy, at her Townsville school.

The mother says she cannot fathom why police acted the way they did, when her daughter has significant physical limitations and suffers seizures.

Police have issued a statement confirming the incident, saying the girl had been damaging property and also lunged at an officer after they went to visit her at her Mundingburra school.

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