Morning Briefing August 3: Controversial police restraining tool linked to death
(WorldNews New Zealand)

A two-year Sunday investigation into the arrest and death of Alo Ngata has revealed police misused a controversial restraining tool and failed to follow their own policies. Alo Ngata Source: Sunday Twenty-nine-year-old Ngata was tasered, pepper-sprayed and tied up by police after he randomly attacked an elderly man in central Auckland in 2018. A few hours later, his heart stopped beating while he was in a cell with a spit hood over his head. Witnesses to the arrest heard Mr Ngata call out, “Brother, help me, I can`t breathe.” Mr Ngata`s family believe police misused the spit hood and failed to monitor his condition. Police completed two internal investigations and concluded “no person...