{"id":721179,"date":"2026-06-07T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:39:11","slug":"claire-man-dies-during-arrest-in-south-australian-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721179\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire: Man dies during arrest in South Australian town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died during an arrest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/sa\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Australian<\/a> town.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 44-year-old man threatened officers with a metal pole before a Taser was used in Clare in the Clare Valley, about 130 kilometres north of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/australia-news\/sa\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adelaide<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" Police say the 44-year-old man threatened officers with a metal pole before a TASAR was used in Clare in the Clare Valley, 136 km north of Adelaide.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16f7dfa702c3e0ae22d89298bd0298b29d8f6b19875181b679947c9517322344.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\"> Police say the 44-year-old man threatened officers with a metal pole before a taser was used in Clare in the Clare Valley, 136 km north of Adelaide.\u00a09News<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the street at 12.30pm today to reports of a man armed with a pole damaging property.<\/p>\n<p>Assistance Commissioner David O\u2019Donovan said police used a Taser after the man threatened them but it was \u201cineffective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice were then involved in going hands-on with the offender,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd obviously during the arrest it was then that he became unresponsive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police gave first aid but he died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are under way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died during an arrest in a South Australian town. Police say the 44-year-old man threatened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-721179","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\/721179","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=721179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}