Queensland’s top cop has described as “very confronting” footage of a violent arrest where a driver was repeatedly punched and then tasered.
Police were responding to a three-car crash in Brisbane’s north on June 22 when the agitated man allegedly confronted an officer from inside a car.
Investigators say he was under the influence at the time and drinking from a wine bottle, which the officer tried to confiscate before it was thrown at him.
Bystander footage shows an officer repeatedly striking the man before deploying his Taser while multiple firefighters look on.
The man allegedly spat on another officer….