Queensland police Tasered Aboriginal man six times before he died, coroner hears

Six officers restrained Ashley Charles Washington, who had stabbed an officer and police dog with scissors

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An Indigenous man was Tasered six times by Queensland police and sedated by ambulance officers before he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest, a coroner has heard.

The coroners court in Brisbane on Monday held a pre-inquest conference into the death of Ashley Charles Washington, 31, on 13 December, 2020 in Toowoomba.

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