‘People need to see it’: inquest shown footage of Western Australian police restraining Indigenous man
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#5J7ZB)
Mr Riley, tasered 10 times in less than two minutes during struggle with several police officers, later died in hospital
An inquest has been shown confronting footage of police restraining an Indigenous man who died after being tasered outside an Officeworks store in Perth.
Family members cried in distress and left the room as the Perth coroner's court was on Tuesday shown the confrontation between police and 39-year-old Mr Riley, whose first name is not being used for cultural reasons.
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