The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has appealed for witnesses after a man jumped into the River Thames in London and died after a Taser was used on him on Saturday.
The IOPC has not named the 41-year-old man who jumped into the Thames from Chelsea Bridge and later died after the Taser was used several times.
Video footage of the incident, which has been circulating on social media, shows a black man wielding a screwdriver and screaming incoherently at the two Metropolitan Police officers. They appear to Taser him three times but he gets up each time and eventually runs off, climbing over a barrier and then jumping off the bridge….