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The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) says Wellington police were justified in tasering an armed man who received a serious head injury after he fell onto the road.
Police were called to reports that a man, who was armed with a blade from a pair of hedge trimmers, had trapped a woman and her baby in a bus-stop on Cockayne Road in Khandallah just after midday on 9 January.
One person who called police told operators the man - referred to in the report as Mr Z - was "out of control".
"I've got a situation at bus stop 4411 on Co
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