NSW police Tasered ‘extremely unwell’ Indigenous man a week before incident with Clare Nowland

Police say they have launched an internal investigation into the use of the Tasers, as is standard practice, following the incident involving an Indigenous man in Batemans Bay. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Police Tasered a young Indigenous man hospitalised with mental health issues twice on the mistaken belief that he was armed with a pair of scissors, the Guardian can reveal.

Just one week before a Cooma police officer Tasered Clare Nowland in May, a young Indigenous man sought medical assistance from officers further north in Batemans Bay, on New South Wales’ south coast.