E matuia manu'aga o se tina ua 95 tausaga le matua ina ua fanaina e leoleo i se fana uila poo se taser i se nofoaga e tausi ai tagata matutua i le aai o Cooma i New South Wales.
O le tina o Clare Nowland e a'afia i le galogalo poo le dementia, ae o loo fia iloa e lona aiga pe aisea na fa'aaogaina ai e leoleo se fana uila se taser e faafilemu ai le tina i le nofoaga le Yallambee Lodge aged care home i Cooma i le vaiaso na te'a nei.
Na faaalia e le sui Komesina o leoleo Peter Cotter, ina ua taunuu leoleo e tali se vala'au mai tagata faigaluega na tiute i le nofoaga i le po na tupu ai le faalavelave, o loo umia e le tina se naifi se'i tulou.
"At the time she was Tasered she was approaching police, it is fair to say at a slow pace. She had a walking frame. But she had a knife. I can’t take it any further what was going through anyone’s mind with the use of a Taser. That is for them."
O loo faagasolo se su'esu'ega a leoleo, ma e ono aofia ai ni ata video mai masini pu'eata e faapipii i la'ei o leoleo poo body camera footage - ae na faaalia e le sui Komesina, e ono taofia le faasalalauina faalaua'itele o le video.
"Both officers had their body-worn video activated. The incident in totality is captured. Both audio and visual. It is confronting footage. It forms a significant and integral part of the investigation. And it is not in the public interest to be releasing that."
O le a iloiloina e le Komisi mo amioga talafeagai a leoleo le Law Enforcement Conduct Commission alumaga o le su'esu'ega.
Na saunoa le peresitene o le NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Josh Pallas, e tele mata'upu ogaoga ma taua i le su'esu'ega lenei, ma e tatau ona iai se sao o le Komisi le Law Enforcement Conduct Commission i le su'esu'ega.
Na ia saunoa fo'i e le tala feagai le toe su'esu'e e leoleo o i latou lava.
"We don't think police should investigate police in any set of circumstances. And the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has the jurisdiction to initiate its own investigation to this sort of conduct because it is potentially a serious offence that a police officer has committed. Ms Nowland could unfortunately pass away. That would be a homicide. Given the strangeness of the circumstances, in particular we think this is a case where police should not be investigating themselves, given the gravity the consequences for Ms Nowland and her family."
Na saunoa se soo'upu mo le aiga o le Clare Nowland, le alii o Andrew Thaler, e matua ofo ma le talitonu i le gaioiga na faia e leoleo, ma e fia iloa tonu pe aisea na faia ai le faai'uga e fana lo latou tina i se fana uila.
Na saunoa le peresitene o le faalapotopotoga People with Disability Australia, Nicole Lee, o se tulaga e matua faapopoleina ai le faia o se gaioiga faapenei i se tagata ua lata i le 100 tausaga le matua.
"The initial reaction is just one of shock that something like this can happen or that even that anybody would think to use this kind of force on somebody in this situation and of this age as well. So it's shocking, it's absolutely shocking. And I lost both my grandmothers - one to dementia and one to Alzheimer's. It is a very confronting illness. They often get really very distressed. But to think that anyone would respond in this kind of way, irrespective of whether or not this person had a weapon. It is shocking, it is absolutely shocking."
Na saunoa foi Nicloe Lee e tatau i leoleo ona a'oa'oina lelei i taimi e feagai ai ma tagata o loo i se tulaga faaletonu le mafaufau.
"Better training for police is something that is pretty critical. We hear quite regularly for people with psychosis where violence is used against them - and critical instances where people have been unfortunately shot because they are in a mental health crisis. You know people need help. They don't need violence. Really looking at how police forces can do better. Set up specialised teams are just trained for handling a situation like this. So the person who is in crisis isn't harmed - and they can get them to the help that they need."
Na ia ta'ua foi le tulaga lamatia i tagata matutua o le fanaina i se fana uila - e pa'u ma gau gofie ponaivi ma isi faafitauli e pei o le pe faafuase'i o le fatu.
"Well, the risks of using a taser on anybody - it doesn't come without any kind of risk as to whether or not there may be heart damage for the person. But for an older person fall risks around brittle bones and breaking something - whether it be a hip or an arm. And in this case, she has hit her head. For somebody of this age, there has to have been another way to disarm somebody of 95. Unless she is one very agile, fit and quick 95-year-old, it is really quite confronting that there wasn't some other method that didn't involve causing her harm that they've caused."
Na aumaia i le Komisi su'esu'e i le tausiga o tagata matutua, le aged care royal commission, fautuaga poo recommendations i auala e faafilemu ai tagata o loo tausia i nofoaga aged care facilities - ma e faasaina ai ona saisaia pe fa'aaogaina ni vailaau poo nisi auala e aunoa ma se fautuaga mai se tagata tuto'atasi e lava sona tomai ma agava'a e faia sea faai'uga.
(Ripoti a Biwa Kwan ma Virginia Langeberg mo le SBS News, tapenaina ma faasalalauina e Ioane Lafoa'i mo le SBS Samoan).
