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WA Police Internal Affairs investigators have been sent to Geraldton after the mother of a woman shot by police in 2019, was allegedly pushed over by an officer in the street. Police have apologised to the women, 62-year-old Anne Jones, who suffered an injury to the back of her head. The incident occurred just hours before she was due to go to court for the fifth day of a coronial inquest into her daughter, JC’s, death.

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00:00Ann Jones films as four officers try to put her 18-year-old grandson into the back of
00:07a police van. Not long after, the situation escalates.
00:11I have to say personally that I'm very concerned with what I've seen.
00:17Within hours of the incident, Geraldton Superintendent Steve Post stands beside Ann Jones offering
00:22a full apology.
00:24I fell backwards. He pushed me backwards and knocked me off balance. So that's why I just
00:32went back and hurt my spine down the lower back here and up here I ended up with a big
00:37lump on my head.
00:38We're sorry for what has happened to you today and that's not pre-empting anything that might
00:44come out of the investigation because the investigation still has to be conducted.
00:49It's understood WA Police Commissioner Cole Blanche has also spoken with Ms Jones. Police
00:55internal affairs are travelling to Geraldton for the investigation.
00:59But I do ask for the greater community for calm over the weekend whilst we conduct the
01:06investigation.
01:07Ann Jones has spent all week at the inquest into the death of her daughter JC, shot by
01:12police while holding a knife and scissors in a Geraldton street.
01:16Very, very disgusted. This is the fifth day now and then this happened to me this morning.
01:23Family advocate Megan Cracker says while she is concerned about police investigating police,
01:29the overall response was positive.
01:31Obviously we're going to have to wait and see what the outcome is, but the conversations
01:35have already happened and that's a really strong thing in terms of Western Shrine Police.
01:39The officer involved has been moved to administrative duties while internal affairs investigate.
01:46For more information visit www.fema.gov
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