Again, we're so fearful. . .no translator, no report of any attempt to de-escalate (ordering a man to calm down is patently ineffective, like screaming at someone to be quiet. As is trying to get someone who is hysterical to "put his hands down on the desk) the situation, just up, up, up.

Until a man whose worst (reported) crime was throwing some furniture, wrecking a computer or two, and not knowing English, is dead.

God forbid someone show some compassion, maybe attempt to understand the situation try to figure out what was actually going on.

But then that's what happens when one views the world through the eyes of fear.

Fact or no fact, it certainly seems as though police of all stripes are relying on tasers for situations that perhaps wouldn't require their use. Seems like they're being used more and more as a crutch, when it should be used as a final step before deadly force. I'd like to see some statistics on this.

Note that, in every jurisdiction I've ever lived in, destruction of property is never a reason for force-escalation. Not to mention that there are plenty of methods for gaining compliance, not just the baton, taser, or sidearm. Or that the guy had come off of a plane, and the chances of the guy having an honest-to-God weapon are slim to none.

In the end it wasn't a taser that killed this man, it was fear, lack of proper training and regulation.

A sandwich, maybe a cup of coffee, or a soda if offered, could well have saved a life here. Hell, even not meeting hysterics with anger and the threat of violence would have been a step in the right direction. But since all that was attempted was the quickest, most expedient path to the end, we'll never know.

Flame on.

I just made the mistake of reading several pages of comments on the USA Today story. Makes me want to vomit seeing the way anything other than being a "good German" gets pegged for being anti-American/pro-terrorist, or being a "moonbat."

That there are so many people in this country who live their lives so afraid of the outside world that they cannot build walls high enough, locks strong enough, laws tough enough, lists long enough, to keep the danger out; truly makes me mourn our former selves.

It reminds me of something Jon Savage wrote in "England's Dreaming." Something along the lines of hurting yourself much quicker and much worse than another person could simply so that other person could not.

A meatspace DDoS on this list is fully in order.