Bodycam footage has emerged of two officers brutally attacking and pepper-spraying a woman’s genitals
New police bodycam footage has emerged of two officers brutally attacking and pepper-spraying a woman’s genitals as she laid naked on a road during a psychotic episode.
It comes as the identity of the woman was made public for the first time.
Nichole Allen and Sharee Castagna were sickened by the footage in which NSW Police officers, Senior Constable Nathan Black and Constable Timothy John Trautsch brutalised their cousin Jodi Knott, then 48.
The pair fought long and hard for the footage to be released to the public after Ms Knott died of cancer 18 months after the vile 2023 attack.
They want their cousin’s legacy to be better police training when responding to incidents involving acute mental illness.
Ms Allen broke down when the pair watched the bodycam footage for the first time.
‘They didn’t care that there were cameras around or that their bodycam footage was on,’ Ms Castagna told ABC’s Four Corners.
‘That says to me that there is a significant cultural issue within the police … that this type of behaviour is OK.’
