Originally Posted by kane

You are grossly overthinking this. The dude was naked in public and threatening to kill himself. Do you really think he stashed other guns as a means to lure the police in and open fire on them?

Also, the situation didn't go south. He dropped the gun and was walking towards them, naked and unarmed. Watch the video. At the end when the guy is walking up the sidewalk, the K9 officer is about 10 feet in front of the guy at one point. As my friend who is a cop and was once a K9 cop (until they retired his dog) said, "It should have ended then." That cop should have charged the guy, who, again, was naked and unarmed and put him on the ground. If, when the cop closed the distance, the guy ran he should have let the dog go. Watch the video. After the guy was shot cops swarm in from all sides.

I don't doubt that the officers were nervous and wanted to be careful because this guy was clearly having some kind of mental breakdown, but it just seems to me like there were a lot of other options they could have tried before shooting him.