‘No option’ but to Taser Indigenous man in fatal arrest, Queensland police officer tells inquest

Officer feared for his life when he used his Taser to shock Ashley Charles Washington who later died in hospital, inquest hears

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A Queensland police officer has told an inquest he had no option but to repeatedly fire a Taser while apprehending an Indigenous man who died soon after.

The coroner's court heard the first of three days of evidence for the inquest into the death of Ashley Charles Washington, aged 31, on 13 December 2020, in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane.