Two cops charged with pepper spray on a naked woman's main area
Jul 11, 2025
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Police were found to have struck a woman's body several times, including the head, and even sprayed pepper spray to suppress protests in major areas.
Nathan Black, 28, a former police officer in Sydney, Australia, and Tim Trauch recently appeared in court on charges of injury and illegal use of weapons (pepperspray), according to foreign media such as the Daily Mail.
They were dispatched to the Emu Plains Industrial Complex in western Sydney on January 22, 2023 (local time) after receiving a report that a woman was naked.
Sitting on a roadside lawn jaw, a 48-year-old woman was suffering from a mental illness (diagnosed schizophrenia).
According to the prosecution's indictment, the woman strongly protested when she tried to hand over to the emergency services, and the two police grabbed her arm and hair and pushed her to the road, hitting her head, arm and leg several times and pulling her hair.
He even sprayed pepper spray on his face, back, and groin at least six times.
In the process, the woman defecated on the road, and the police said something disparaging.
In the wake of the controversy, Black and Trauch claimed they were experiencing long-term mental stress at the time, but prosecutors charged them with using unnecessary violence in a situation where the case was a typical example of violent suppression and was sufficiently curable.
They were later fired from the police station, and the woman reportedly died 18 months later for other reasons.
The first sentencing hearing in the case is scheduled to be held on July 15.
Prosecutor Nicholas Mani chose unnecessary violence even though they had enough opportunities to suppress or persuade the victim, and the consequences were terrible" he criticized.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
