Police pepper-sprayed and Tasered 93-year-old disabled man, court hears

apparently the president couldn't make it there in time to make fun of him first

It's sad that Burgess was attacked by the officers leading to him being sent to a hospital where he may have caught Covid-19 and died, but the officers

1. were called out on "a grade 1 call, meaning it was treated as the highest level of emergency",
2. may have heard that Burgess "was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife",
3. may not have seen or been told Burgess couldn't reach them if they stayed a few metres away.

If Burgess was in an unlocked room, then the officers were criminally rash.

If however he was in a room locked from the outside, then they may not have known that he wasn't much of a threat.

They should be charged with excessive force because they didn't assess the situation before using force, or people at the site should be charged for lying and making it seem much more dangerous than it was; but this is not like the headline makes it sound.