The other pandemic “I knew there were some crazies out there. But I underestimated how many,” a friend said at an event last night. “Our culture is so sick…” Digby wrote in her last Thursday post. Scanning through Twitter every morning reinforces that assessment. Couldn’t it have just been a dancing fever? Police in Huntington Park, Calif. on Saturday shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect, a double amputee who dismounted his wheelchair to flee on his stumps. The Telegraph reports: Police said they got a call on Saturday that a man was stabbed by another man in a wheelchair. Officers said when they arrived on the scene they found Mr Lowe with a butcher knife. Video footage taken by a passerby which was released online on Monday shows Mr Lowe out of his wheelchair, trying to get away from two officers using his arms to propel himself along the ground. When a third officer arrived, they shot Lowe “around ten times,” killing him, said Lt. Hugo Reynaga. ‘He tried to run away, and every time he turned around and did the motion like he was gonna throw the knife at him, they Tased him,’ said Reynaga. ‘They were trying to give this guy the less-lethal Taser shock. And because it was ineffective, they had to go to something that was more effective.’ “The suspect attempted to throw the butcher knife at the officers again, at which time an officer involved shooting occurred,” the sheriff’s office statement said. “Attempted”? “Again”? Might…