Well most criminals and perpetrators are malicious to begin with, it's not like this they use taser for noise complain. I fail to see how a police can stop a criminal without using some kind of weapon or coercion techniques.
We have the luxury of judging things from the safety of our internet along with a hindsight. The police has to act on instant and whatever they do will have consequences, what if the perp is an armed and dangerous with a concealed weapon? Doesn't take much for someone to hurt another human being if theh have intention.
At that moment of time the police would not know what ailment the suspect has, what his motives are, how dangerous he could have been, and with recent knife attack, terrorism i really cant blame the cops for trying to handle the situation in a swift manner.
Im not judging anything until there's more factual and investigation, but on the principle we have to trust our cops that they do the right thing, the opposite of it would be chaos and unthinkable.
We empower the police to act on our behalf for the safety of the many, we should at least offer them the benefit of the doubt untill they're proven guilty (if they are).
The death is a tragedy and very regrettable, but if this unfortunate death means removing the use of tazer altogether then i believe the society as a whole would greatly lost more in the grand scheme of things.
Edit: my view is only on tazer, if the cops uses gun then it falls under a different deabter, but a tazer is the best non lethal alternatives short of tranquilizers shot at the moment. A better training would not reduce the risk for our officer, a hand to hand combat is more dangerous against a person who's set to harm you.
Furthermore i beliebe that the cops would have tried to talk him out, and follow the due process before deciding that they have to taze him.
In short : one death doesn't mean the procedure is wrong and the cops are killer as there's no intention to kill until proven otherwise.
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