For sure, he wasn't meditating enough or he woulda kept his **** together. He was weak tho...... You gotta train your ****ing mind people especially in this day in age or mental health issues will creep up on you 100% with the **** software being passed around like computerviruses and no one having and anti virus.

at 1:20 in the vid, "officer thats inside if you can come out behind him he wont see you and you can get custody of the handgun, he doesnt have any other weapons on him"

This is murder or criminal negligence. He walked away from the gun for 30 seconds, why didnt they just go for the gun????

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how do you know thats not where he was aiming? watch the video the officer is on the move and the suspect is on the move when the shot is taken. officers are trained to shoot center mass dude not try to wing him in the shoulder.

If there's a naked man on LSD, Marijuana and Booze with a loaded gun, right outside a church door where my kids are in preschool, not compliant with police officer's commands, and running back towards the loaded gun, I'm ok with shoot to kill.

There have certainly been some terrible actions by police in the last few years, shooting someone naked running towards their gun in front of a church with kids inside while police are yelling to stop is not one of them.

The human police officers all did their jobs accordingly. But what about that canine police officer? He got distracted by a squirrel in the bush or something. Imo that police officer needs to be fired. Do your job dawg!

Naked Poker Player in Drug-Induced Haze Shot By Police in Las Vegas

Well which one of us hasn't? Judge not lest we be judged.

Seriously? Is that how you justify police killings? Not only did police (and you) missed the opportunity to secure the weapon while the guy was far away from it, but they also failed to use non-lethal means to stop him: dog was supposed to pull him down and keep him there, taser was also an option. If not, than shoot him in the legs (he wasn't holding a weapon and wasn't posing a deadly threat!).

And those ****ers should also get a physical evaluation to see if they're fit for duty. Not being able to chase a guy who was barely walking and was max 3m (10ft) ahead of you? And fire that dog and her handler.

Sure you can play the "what if" game after the fact. But I am not one to put the police in the game of always performing a perfect bailout of someone's piss-poor life decisions.

As you can hear on the audio, picking up the gun would put the officer in direct line of crossfire of the other officer if naked LSD man decided to assault.

JFC is there no personal responsibility in this country anymore? If you show up right outside a church preschool with a loaded gun hopped up on LSD, Pot and Booze, there's a rightly good chance you will end up dead, and justifiably. Don't blame the police for this guy's horrible life choices. And he lived anyway.

I have never been in law enforcement or the military, and I can tell you that is not standard procedure for ANY unit in the WORLD. The Salvation Army would have handled it the same way.

What crossfire!? There's no crossfire if you don't shoot an UNARMED man! You outnumber him, have a dog available, have tasers, sticks and you're trained! Subdue him without using deadly force.

Let's just take a breather here and consider that a drugged out individual sprinting to pick up a gun against the commands of an officer. What are they supposed to do, not shoot him? Take their chances?

Life is important and in many cases is not respected nearly enough. But how about having some respect for the lives of the people around him?

I am all for the police having more options to disarm people through non lethal force. But it's also important to recognize if you are attempting to attain a weapon that can kill other people around you, then it cannot be the #1 concern to provide to safety to that individual.

You aim for center mass, because aiming for legs is really hard and if you miss, then you don't know where that bullet will end up.

Sprinting? He was barely able to walk. It was definitely possible to chase him and subdue if that dog AND/OR it's handler (who was closest to the suspect) actually chased him. And that's exactly what they were supposed to do.

There were too many mistakes made on police part that lead to the eventual shooting, which was totally avoidable in this case.

Seriously, it's easier to explain shooting a kid with a realistic toy gun than this.

And yet the Number #1 way to make this shooting avoidable is not being outside the door of a church preschool, naked, with a loaded gun, hopped up on LSD, Pot and Booze.

Not heard of the femoral artery?

A shot to the leg can be fatal, this isn't Hollywood.

Truth.

At least they shot him in the shoulder instead of the head. Props to the guy with great aim. I hope this Funke fella does get the help he needs.

Kudos to the cop who administered the NON-LETHAL shot.

Your missing the part where the officer on the radio ALSO told him he would be in a cross-fire, if he ran for the gun at that moment.

So chase him towards the gun hes running for....and if he gets there first you're just putting yourself closer to a madman with a gun. No I think shooting him is a better option. An effective non-lethal option would be best.

Pretty Tragic Story... Acid is a hell of a Drug.

You can't tell from the video how trigger happy they were - he could have been getting close to the gun, or he could have been running haphazardly away from the dogs who were let off the leash to take him down. The audio just says "he's running" as the camera scans over a bunch of trees. Is there more footage hasn't been posted?

Poor judgment of the police officers aside, if there's a problem that could've been fixed it's that they didn't have long range non lethal alternatives.

Nobody thinks his behavior is acceptable. The point is that it's not easy to stop mentally unstable people from doing illegal drugs and having a freak out, but you can make some simple changes to police procedures that'll reduce the number of people who get killed in standoffs like this.

if Jason Funke was darker he prolly would have been pumped with 20 Bullets 30 seconds into video..

Think Police handled it fine.. obv being results oriented someone should have run in and control the weapon as soon as he dropped it.

Dude is lucky to be alive.

when you take Acid and go to a Preschool Naked with a loaded Gun you lose all rights to protection, Better you are mistakenly killed 100 Times than 1 time Cops hesitate and an innocent child is hurt..

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