KFI640- A sword-wielding Las Vegas man was shot and killed after he lunged toward a pair of police officers. Two officers responded to a disturbance call at an apartment building and found 40-year-old Justin Charland standing near a second-floor stairwell yelling and wildly swinging around a large sword. read more
Shoulda shot it outta his hands …
But – seein as he’s a white guy … they kilt him.
izlamo delenda est …
6 feet! 6 feet!
He was just out jogging and took a sword with him in case he was attacked by a killer rabbit!
He was practicing for his muslimship.
NEVER…. and i mean NEVER take sword to a gun fight.
i guess he was fed up with being locked down.
Lesson learned? Never bring a knife to a gun fight.
…y’know, it’s easy to laugh at this guy, just like I used to laugh when I saw that the right “to keep and bear arms” was ONLY extended to those who swore an oath to the King, thinking, “Gee, that’s SO medieval, in our free society ANYONE can keep and bear arms”.
And it was true then, more or less.
Ain’t so true NOW, is it?
…strap on a sword if you want to find out.
…but be prepared to lose your freedom and the sword, both for an indefinite period of time, if you DO so in public.
…look at edged weapon laws…they are even MORE arbitrary and caprecious than GUN laws, vary more by State, and are MUCH more left up to officer and prosecuter discretion, and the judge will usually side with THEM…
Cops lucky he’s alive.
REMINDER; NEVER FORGET. According to the LVP and FBI Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more all by himself.
Black lives matter!
(Huh? I didn’t know the muthafuka was white!)
The officer let him get much closer than I would have.
I am sorry for Justin and his mental health issues.
His sword appears to be a Japanese Katana, thy are razor sharp and extremely deadly, My first shot would have been to to his head, just to slow his forward progress.
Cause of death: Mental illness and probable Covid-19.
His mistake was probably attacking way too slowly and against a drawn gun.
If you’re less than 10 or so feet away and have any idea what you’re doing, you can draw a sword (or knife for that matter) and kill your opponent before he has any chance of drawing a gun. If he already has the gun drawn you don’t stand a chance outside of him hesitating to pull the trigger and letting you get close enough to use it.
FWIW, conditions are kinda bad in Vegas from what I hear, if he didn’t have the virus then he was probably having a breakdown from the virus lockdown.
Either way that makes him a corona victim and he should end up counted as such in official statistics.
@Left Coast DAN ~ thanks for the laugh!!!
Suicide by cop. That or a D&D nerd lost grip on reality because there is no such thing as “Jeremy’s ‘deflection of ballistics’ Jacket”.
There can be only one!
“According to the LVP and FBI Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more all by himself.”
Never heard of him.
THIS IS WHY GUNS ARE EVIL !
Pro Tip. If you run across a Cop that still has the stock plastic “Ball in Basket” plastic sites on their department issued Glock, look out. Overwhelming odds are they don’t know how to shoot. Just like this guy. This cop would have missed the bad guy at 21 feet.
Give the cop credit for remaining calm and trying to defuse the situation.
Could have shot him in the leg and bled him out so you could talk to him later. Cops are only taught torso kill shots, their not looking for answers.
john belushi would be so disappointed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB_z_Tc5cs8
Justin Charland.
WORST. NINJA. EVAH.
…a TRUE Jedi would have deflected the bullets…
was it an military assault sword ?
because no one needs to have a military assault sword !
Obvious he was having gambling withdrawals. People are snapping, this fake virus is the cruelest joke ever played on the world.
The Covid racks up another victim, no doubt.
Is Lt. Dennis Tueller’s 21 Foot principle, for accessing a threat from a suspect with an edged weapon, still considered valid?
https://www.forcescience.org/2019/09/the-21-foot-rule-is-back-in-the-news/ .
That’s exactly how I charge my Petey B with my unbleached elastic starfish and he returns fire as well!
If the caliber doesn’t start with a “4” don’t carry it as your primary…
Geeze…. giving a white guy a katana is like giving a bag lady a bunch of cats.
Instant insanity.
Yup, that’ll gitcha kill’t right thar.
i likes my 44 magnet!
Why did he have to shoot him three times??? Because 9mm is only good for target practice, and only those that squat to pee carry it for primary defense! I will only carry a 9 if that’s the only thing I can conceal. Usually it’s a .45 1911 with a .22 mag BLACKWIDOW backup.
I feel for Officer Segura, he will see that play over and over in his nightmares.
@Anonymous May 11, 2020 at 1:20 pm
> If he already has the gun drawn you don’t stand a chance
A chance to live? Or a chance to succeed?
The former can be taken from you. The latter must be surrendered.
@Justin Case
“Because 9mm is only good for target practice”
9mm may not be the best weapon of choice BUT, I’m willing to bet there are very few people that are willing to stand in front of one while it’s being discharged.
what? he was just showing the cop how he wanted him to cut his hair – been months for crying out loud