❤️HER NAME IS JODI KNOTT❤️
‘She had a face, she had a name, and it was Jodi.’
Jodi Knott was a woman who needed police to take care of her when she was at her most vulnerable.
What they did to her can only be described as deep and disturbing cruelty.
Jodi’s family have approved publication of footage showing former police officers Nathan Black and Timothy Trautsch subjecting her to brutal and humiliating assaults as she was naked and experiencing a severe psychotic break.
Jodi – who had schizophrenia – died of cancer 18 months after their assaults on her.
“I’m terrified of you people. Go away,” Jodi yelled when the then-serving NSW Police officers turned up in 2023 to do a welfare check on her.
“You can’t physically beat me.”
She was about 300 metres from Amber Laurel Correctional Centre from where she just been released.
She was off her meds and becoming disoriented, ending up in the Emu Plains small cul-de-sac.
Black and Trautsch proceeded to stomp on Jodi as she lay naked on the road.
Black kicked her in the head, dragged her by the hair.
They sprayed pepper spray into the graze wounds on her skin and into her eyes.
“We need a taser,” Black was recorded telling Trautsch.
“Oi, is there a long baton in the car?” Black said to which Trautsch replied: “Yeah, that’ll settle her down.”
At one point Jodi begged God for help.
Both men were charged over the attack on Jodi and sentenced to five years and nine months.
Jodi’s family hope the footage will help them change policing culture – they want her legacy to re-frame how police respond to people experiencing mental health crisis.
“She was a lost little soul that just needed help now and then,” Jodi’s cousin Nichole told the ABC.
“This was our cousin and we were proud of Jodi.
“We don’t care what anyone else says. We’re proud and we loved her to death. Always have and always will. We just wanted to let everybody know. She had a face, she had a name, and it was Jodi.”
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