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Cooma locals say tasering of elderly woman 'disgusting', as police review footage

The next few days for a 95-year-old woman who was tasered by a New South Wales police officer will be "critical," the state's police commissioner said. 

New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said she had visited Clare Nowland's family at Cooma Base Hospital, and was "concerned" by what had happened.

"We all want to know and understand what happened, but also why it happened," she told reporters on Saturday. 

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