Why didn’t the German police subdue Abdul Ballout with a taser?

From state-sponsored PBS:

Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed following a search that lasted nearly 24 hours after the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said he had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.

Ballout was tracked down around 6 p.m. Sunday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb, the city’s police department wrote on X. They said he apparently ran toward officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.

If this German-born child of enrichers had only a “sharp instrument”, why wouldn’t the famously lenient and gun-averse Europeans have subdued Abdul with “less lethal” force, e.g., a taser?

Furthermore, according to the New York Times, the shooting was especially unfair because the perpetrator of the attack on the “LGBTQ Pride event” was “a car” and not Abdul:

A German newspaper, translated by Google, on the success of deradicalization classes:

As recently as May, Ballout was in judicial custody. He was also reportedly in the preliminary stages of a deradicalization program and had already completed two appointments with experts in extremism prevention, during which no plans for an attack were discussed.

How does a person get qualified as an “expert in extremism prevention”?

3 thoughts on “Why didn’t the German police subdue Abdul Ballout with a taser?

  1. > How does a person get qualified as an “expert in extremism prevention”?

    Demonstrating that they can teach their children the difference between right and wrong.

  2. Still trying to process how my deeply religious family-man friend Abdul was savagely attacked by Buttfuckers as he was simply driving by their parade, and then subsequently gunned down by racist, islamophobic Nazi police.

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