How many will it take before we can agree? There is no way one can defend tasering at this point. I mean, I can barely keep up with all the national news, and so I’m sure for every taser-death story like this one I read, I’m not reading 10 others. Other nations don’t give tasers to their police officers and still manage to keep crime down. There are better ways to enforce the law.

A teenager died after police used a Taser on him inside a grocery store in northeast Charlotte.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police homicide detectives said they will investigate why police used the Taser on 17-year-old Darryl Turner Thursday afternoon.

His mother, Tammi Fontenot, told Eyewitness News, “I want answers. I want to know why. I just want to know why.”
Police said an argument escalated between Turner and one of his supervisors at a Food Lion on Prosperity Church Road. Officers said the teen assaulted a store manager by throwing an object after officers arrived on scene.
Police released a statement reading, “[Turner] was highly agitated and refused all verbal commands and began walking toward the officer.” At that point, the officer used his Taser on Turner.

Turner went to Carolinas Medical Center-University, but he died a short time later.
Fontenot said her son and the manager have had problems in the past but she does not believe he became violent.
“When he gets upset, he is hard to talk to, but violent — no. Act stupid, yes, mouth off, yes, but violent, no,” she said.

Stop, ok? Just stop killing Black Youth.