[caskethopper]

From the article, it sounds like it is on a completely different list altogether.

"Most states and agencies say ketamine may be administered when someone exhibits “excited delirium” or agitation, which is typically associated with chronic drug abuse, mental illness or both."

In that scenario, the police would be beating the culprit into compliance and we would all be looking at videos on youtube shaking our heads. I'm not saying cops should be carrying hypodermics in their utility belt, but how many non-lethal options do you remove before you have to accept more lethal outcomes?

[NotSammyHagar]

This is yet another scenario where the US can't seem to avoid violent actions when arresting people and other countries don't seem to have this problem. So what's going on here? I can only see it as another case where violent actions are significantly increased by police behavior.

[Igelau]

> other countries don't seem to have this problem

It would help to be more specific about which other countries and when. There are a lot of reasons why things happen in one place and not another.