another asian man shot and killed by police

News of another police shooting from last week, again involving an Asian American victim... In San Jose, police shot and killed Daniel Pham, who was apparently brandishing a knife and made a move toward them. Two officers first used a Taser to try to subdue him, then shot him with their handguns. He died at the scene: Family says brother begged San Jose police not to shoot man with knife.

Is it me, or does this sound eerily similar to the police shooting of Joseph Han in Folsom? Or the high-profile July 2003 police shooting of Bich Cau Thi Tran, the mentally ill Vietnamese mother who was holding a vegetable peeler, which a San Jose police officer mistook for a cleaver. The incident ignited the Vietnamese community over issues of mental health and cultural sensitivities.

Maybe these issues may have to be revisited. Pham also reportedly suffered from a history of mental illness. Were the officers made aware of this? Was there something they could've done differently that could've resulted in Pham walking away alive? All I know is, another Asian person is dead -- and the police shot him.