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Samantha Lock

Top cop says watching Taser bodycam will taint inquiry

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb is yet to watch footage of a grandmother being tasered by police. (Steven Markham/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

NSW's police chief has defended her decision not to watch confronting vision of a 95-year-old grandmother being tasered, while revealing her mother is also in an aged care facility with dementia.

Clare Nowland, who has dementia, was using a walking frame when she was hit with a police Taser at Yallambee Lodge aged care facility in Cooma on Wednesday, after allegedly failing to drop a steak knife.

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