To feel glad the police were sacked for this and feel so upset it happened.

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https://news.sky.com/story/two-officers-sacked-after-92-year-old-man-tasered-and-pepper-sprayed-in-care-home-police-watchdog-says-13595825

Poor man. He had dementia, he was in a wheelchair and was no threat. How could these officers they have treated the resident like that. Makes my blood boil. 🤬

Id be fuming if it was my loved one. Don't they have parents?

I'm really glad that they were found guilty and dismissed from the police. It was disgusting what they did to that poor man.

I also think that the care home have some explaining to do as to why the police were called in the first place. As pp up thread stated, why didn't they call a member of the family first to help deal with this.
If I had a family member in that care home I would be removing them due to this.

Call his family? He has dementia. He likely doesn’t even recognize his family. A care home can’t call family to be exposed to someone with a knife.

There has been at least one more case of police tasering an elderly lady with dementia.

I think police need proper training on how to deal with such cases. People with dementia are not rational and police need to be able to get a knife off someone without risking being stabbed or cut themselves.

The reactions to on this thread are notably different to those where there were at least four police in attendance and who stabbed a young and small boy ( 10 or 11 if I remember right) carrying what looked like a small dinner table knife or plastic knife who was backing away from the police, clearly terrified of them, and who tasered him. Shocking case but police got huge support from many MNetters.

Sorry, don’t know why that says stabbed a young boy! Police obviously did not stab the boy but were all searching for him and when they found him, all followed after him, crowding him, as he backed away from them.

Exactly. Why in earth escalate this to a police matter? Beggers belief ( worked in Care, some EMI experience)

Care staff will be afraid of legal conseqences of using force to disarm him themselves.
By definition, dementia sufferers cannot be reasoned with, they are often very paranoid and genuinely fearful that staff are going to harm them.

The staff shouldn't be afraid if they can justify their actions to disarm him.

I'm not saying that all the staff dive on him - but surly one could have come in with a pillow or blanket and place it over his arm/hand and then take the knife from him.

Of course it contributed to his death. My 90yo relative woke up to find a burglar in his bedroom and he miraculously fought him off. But within weeks, his previously completely healthy body started to shut down and he died a few months later. The doctors treating him said it was standard for an elderly person who's suffered a major shock. People in their eighties and older often don't survive serious falls or extremely stressful sudden events. For a 92 year old man to die within weeks of such a terrifying and extreme assault, it's pretty obvious that the stress was a contributing factor.

Hard agree.

Why did it take 4 years to sack these stupid arseholes? Just a very sad joke of a system there.

Wonder if she'd like her mum treated like that,?

Close the care home down. It wouldn't have happened if they hadn't called the police.

If go mental literally if any of my loved ones were treated like that.

Just close it down. Serve them right.

I just can't get past it
He was no threat at all.