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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-994/
- Published: 2024-07-01T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-01T06:25:54.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

> A coroner has released [graphic video footage](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/families-ask-coroner-to-release-police-eagle-chopper-footage-of-attack-after-death-in-custody-of-alo-ngata/FLDQH666EHAXRLDWRWZULCGYZE/?ref=goodoil.news) showing the moment **a deranged man who attacked an innocent pensioner in a meth-fuelled psychosis is Tasered by police**, wrestled to the ground and taken into custody as loved ones scream “he’s sick” and “don’t hurt him”.  
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> The man’s grieving family have been fighting for the release of the footage since it was suppressed by a Coroner in 2018.  
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> It shows Tongan factory worker Alo Ngata being transported to an Auckland custody unit, placed unresponsive in a prone position on a cell floor while [wearing a spit hood](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alo-ngatas-family-seeking-justice-two-years-after-his-death-in-police-custody/D4LLHY4JEYFAKAYE4RHM7MWQHA/?ref=goodoil.news), then desperate attempts by police to perform CPR after officers realise he[ has stopped breathing](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alo-ngata-inquest-officer-heard-him-say-i-cant-breathe/AL426YVIOCCTWAJWRFQUS7IU6Q/?ref=goodoil.news).  
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> [Ngata, 29, died three days later](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/deranged-man-in-meth-fuelled-psychosis-died-in-police-custody-after-brutal-attack-on-auckland-pensioner-coroner-slates-care/K33Y3SBCPFBSROUX76LC5C4CFE/?ref=goodoil.news) in hospital surrounded by family after his life support was switched off.  
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> A lawyer representing Ngata’s family hopes the footage – although graphic – will serve as a “wake up call” for the public and help prevent similar tragedies involving people experiencing mental distress, suffering from the effects of drugs, or a combination of both.  
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> Coroner Matthew Bates released a damning finding last week which criticised police actions after [Ngata was taken into custody](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/claims-of-police-brutality-refuted-after-death-of-alo-ngata-following-arrest/5WRMQSBHVGPKX7KQHQH2PVDBEI/?ref=goodoil.news) on July 1, 2018.  
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> *NZ Herald*

[Read more here](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/coroner-releases-video-of-auckland-man-being-tasered-during-arrest-police-cpr-attempts-before-death-in-custody/25OLFY6UYJCQ7PEALU5K3INXMU/?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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