The jury was told Mrs Nowland had symptoms of dementia so severe she would have been unable to comply with orders barked at her by White before being fatally tasered.

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White had been suspended from duties with pay during his trial but was removed from the payroll a day after his guilty verdict.

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He was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury last Wednesday, prompting Commissioner Karen Webb to dismiss the senior constable on Tuesday.

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My personal preference would be for "tasered." I think "Taser" will become a genericized trademark to refer to all electrical powered stun guns and "tasered" will be the word that wins out. But that is just my opinion. I'm sure there are people on here who would disagree with me.

Police and paramedics were called to Mrs Nowland's nursing home after the diminutive nonagenarian grabbed two steak knives from a kitchen and raised them against residents and staff before throwing one at a carer.

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I think the key here would be comprehension. There is no clear winner here. A reference to being "tased" or being "tasered" would generally give the same impression to most people and you would be understood with either one.

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"The Nowland family consider the decision to be too little, too late where the commissioner has had full access to all materials on which the jury last week found Mr White guilty of the unlawful killing of Clare for over 12 months and chose to take no action," lawyer Sam Tierney said on the family's behalf.

That being said, the English language creates generic trademarks all the time (Band-Aid, Asprin, Zipper, Velcro, Google, Xerox). If a generic trademark is going to be created, the Taser company lawyers probably can't do much to stop it.

Kristian James Samuel White is awaiting sentencing over his use of a stun gun on great-grandmother Clare Nowland in a nursing home in southern NSW in May 2023.

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"He has never lost sight of the fact that Mrs Nowland passed away and he is acutely aware that the Nowland family is deeply hurt by what happened."

"I have determined that I do not have confidence in the officer's suitability to continue as a police officer," she said in a statement.

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The company that makes Tasers has said that Taser is a brand name and that the correct word for being hit with one is "tased." I'm sure that the Taser company wants to avoid bad press from people being injured or hit with their item in ways that provide bad PR.

The family of a 95-year-old woman fatally tasered by a police officer say his sacking 18 months later is "too little, too late".

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If you let the lawyers have their say, both forms are incorrect. Taser is a trademark and as such should only be used attributively; it can't be inflected in any way. They'd probably insist upon "a fan was shocked with a Taser brand electroshock weapon".

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I was watching a Fox Sports crawl on TV today that stated that a Philadelphia Phillies baseball fan had been tasered after running onto the field. Shouldn't he have been tased?

Gramatically speaking, I like the concept that a Taser tases, but I find "He was tasered" to be a nicer sounding sentence than "He was tased". My money's also on "tasered" to win out in the end.