The latest Taser controversy comes from Alabama where a 37-year-old deaf man with learning difficulties was zapped with a stun gun when he failed to obey commands to leave a general store bathroom. Antonio Love was also hit with pepper spray. His family has filed a complaint against the officers involved in the incident.

Coming not long after cops in Australia fired on a man carrying petrol and a lighter, who was engulfed in flames, this incident will contribute to the mounting international debate about police use of Tasers.