{"id":723293,"date":"2026-06-08T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723293\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:36:13","slug":"clare-mayor-express-shock-at-mans-death-during-arrest-after-ineffective-taser-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723293\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare mayor express shock at man’s death during arrest, after ‘ineffective’ taser activation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clare locals have expressed shock following reports a man died during an arrest on Sunday after an “ineffective” taser activation, as the police minister says he is confident the incident will be thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n

Clare and Gilbert Valleys Council Mayor Allan Aughey said he was “shocked and surprised” at the incident, which police said involved a 44-year-old man who was armed with a metal pole and causing a disturbance at Opie Street<\/a>, in the Mid North town.<\/p>\n

“We are a sociable community, we are a country community with a lot of connectivity and when something like this does happen the ripples go out through our regional townships,” he said.<\/p>\n

He said he felt very troubled for his community.<\/p>\n

“It’s not something that happens here in our area,” he said,<\/p>\n

“It’s quiet and peaceful usually and so I was very, very concerned.”\"multiple<\/p>\n

Police officers at the scene of the incident in Clare. (ABC News: Lincoln Rothall)<\/p>\n

A neighbour to the incident, which police said occurred at Opie Street just before 12:30pm on Sunday, said it was a “pretty quiet” area.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Assistant Commissioner David O’Donovan said that when police arrived a man was damaging property with a metal pole before “two officers were subsequently threatened by the man”.<\/p>\n

“Police attempted to disarm the man and subsequently deployed an ECD (a taser),” he said.<\/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

He said officers administered first aid on the man, from Ward Belt, East of Gawler, before ambulance officers arrived.<\/p>\n

Major Crime and Ethical and Professional Standards detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, including viewing body worn camera vision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The incident occurred at Opie Street on Sunday. (ABC News: Lincoln Rothall)<\/p>\n

The incident is the subject of a Police Commissioner’s Inquiry, and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

Police Minister Michael Brown said the investigation would have oversight from the Office of Public Integrity and the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).<\/p>\n

“I have confidence that it will be done in a thorough, professional manner and that we’ll get answers to the questions that are outstanding,” he said.<\/p>\n

Opposition police spokesman Jack Batty said any death in custody was “an absolute tragedy”.<\/p>\n

“I think we need to have a full and thorough investigation and understand the circumstances around it and work out whether we can do anything to improve the way we operate in the future,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think South Australians deserve a bit of transparency in these matters.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clare locals have expressed shock following reports a man died during an arrest on Sunday after an “ineffective”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[350366,45387,64,63,1300,19674,350367,128925,44,127383,10174,5326,121720],"class_list":["post-723293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-allan-aughey","tag-arrest","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-death","tag-inquiry","tag-jack-batty","tag-michael-brown","tag-news","tag-pole","tag-sa-police","tag-sapol","tag-taser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723293","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=723293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}