An inquest is underway into the death of Ashley Charles Washington, an Indigenous man who died after being tasered by a police Officer in Toowoomba, Queensland. The officer testified that he had no option but to use the taser, as Washington had allegedly burgled a home and stabbed him with a pair of scissors. The officer deployed the taser multiple times, delivering four cycles of electric shocks. The officer claimed that using the taser was his only option other than drawing his weapon. Paramedics administered a sedative to Washington after his arrest, but he later displayed symptoms of cardiac arrest and was declared dead in the hospital.

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