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Australian police and their use of excessive force

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Police use force every day, but a recent string of incidents have raised the question of when it goes too far. The officer who tazed at a 95-year-old woman, Claire Nolan, will see caught next month and is expected to fight the charges. A Queensland police officer was caught on video punching someone who had been in a car crash last week. Police don't need to publicly account for each occasion that they use a gun or a taser or pepper spray - Russell Marx.

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