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<\/p>\nSA Police say a man has died during an arrest after an “ineffective” taser was activated at Clare, in South Australia’s mid north.<\/p>\n
Assistant Commissioner David O\u2019Donovan said police were called to Opie Street just before 12.30pm on Sunday after reports of a 44-year-old man armed with a metal pole creating a disturbance.<\/p>\n
“When police arrived, the man was damaging property with the metal pole and two officers were subsequently threatened by the man,” AC O’Donovan said.<\/p>\n
“Police attempted to disarm the man and subsequently deployed an ECD (a taser).<\/p>\n
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The incident took place on Opie St, close to Clare Primary School. (ABC News: Lincoln Rothall)<\/p>\n
“The taser was activated but it was ineffective, police were then involved in arresting the male, and it was during the arrest procedure that the man became unresponsive.”<\/p>\n
AC O’Donovan couldn’t confirm details on whether the taser failed or didn’t land on the man.<\/p>\n
He said the man was from Ward Belt, East of Gawler.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know why he was in the area other than he was the subject of police being called to the scene.”<\/p>\n
The assistant commissioner said officers administered first aid until SA Ambulance attended the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I’m not aware of any intention to stand the officers down, they will of course be assisting police with the investigation,” AC O’Donovan said.<\/p>\n
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Police say the man died during an arrest in Clare on Sunday. (ABC News: Lincoln Rothall)<\/p>\n
“Police were wearing body worn cameras, that imagery will be viewed as part of the investigation.”<\/p>\n
Police confirmed no officers were harmed during the incident.<\/p>\n
Major Crime and Ethical and Professional Standards detectives were investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n
“There will be oversight of the Office of Public Integrity,” AC O’Donovan said.<\/p>\n
“The investigation is in the early stages and is ongoing.”<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old man\u2019s death will now be subject to a Police Commissioners Enquiry and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SA Police say a man has died during an arrest after an “ineffective” taser was activated at Clare,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-720798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}