Los Vegas PD kills naked man.
Bob, the article didn’t say he was killed. The link you provided was posted by someone using information culled from other sources. The local newspaper had the
story in a very brief form on Saturday a week ago. The same paper had a
follow-up with more information.
The police were responding to a man who was tripping on LSD, marijuana and alcohol who, in the middle of his episode appears, carrying a weapon, at a church that happens to have children attending classes. He was shot in the shoulder which rendered him unable to do any harm. In an unknown situation the police use standard procedures until new information becomes available.
Could they have taken him without shooting him? Maybe, but PCP addicts are known to require multiple officers to subdue them and they didn’t know what he was on. This writer appears to expect the police to be omnipotent and omniscient.
I have reached the point that I barely believe anything I read online. The newspaper article, that I linked above, prompted me to check this out. Instant responses on blogs or twerp accounts to unverified sources result in bad and wrong information, which is almost as bad as no information.
I doubt seriously that the man was high on three different substances because of events out of his control. He did that to himself. If you want to do that, go ahead, but stay at home. Don’t go out and expect the public and the court system to baby-sit you.
I don’t have an issue holding the police accountable when they get it wrong, but flash judgements do harm also. The man was wounded, not killed and the nudity was a byproduct of his delirium and probably not born out of a naturist lifestyle.
Carrying a weapon near a school while high on hallucinogens is gonna get you arrested, period.
Not very bright.
Duane
