New footage shows Dan Bilzerian returning to the scene of the Las Vegas shooting and asking a policeman for his weapon so he could fight back.
The ‘King of Instagram’ was slammed after a video released immediately after Sunday’s attack featured him running away from the gun rampage, in which 58 died.
But the latest clip shows him coming back to the scene and begging a police officer for a weapon so he can shoot back at gunman Stephen Paddock, 64.
Bilzerian’s latest clip shows him coming back to the scene and begging a police officer for a weapon so he can shoot back at gunman Stephen Paddock, 64
Bilzerian shows the officer his gun licence, but he tells him to go away as bursts of automatic gunfire go off in the distance.
The policeman, who is crouching behind a barrier, shouts: ‘No, get the f*** away from me right now, I don’t know who the f*** you are.’
The social media star was criticised for the earlier video, which showed him fleeing the Route 91 Harvest Festival, where he claimed he had seen a girl ‘shot in the head’.
‘Holy f***, a girl just got shot in the f***ing head,’ he says, as he runs away. ‘This is so f***ing crazy.’
The professional poker player’s actions were criticised by Medal of Honor winner and Marine Corps veteran Dakota Meyer.
He accused the social media personality, who tried and failed to become a Navy SEAL, of being a coward.
‘This is what kills me about people like you,’ Meyer wrote on Instagram, tagging Bilzerian, early on Monday morning.
‘Always playing ‘operator dress up’ and so, so tough when the cameras are on.
The social media personality shows the officer his gun licence, but he tells him to go away as bursts of automatic gunfire go off in the distance
The policeman, who is crouching behind a barrier, shouts: ‘No, get the f*** away from me right now, I don’t know who the f*** you are’
‘A woman just got shot in the head and you are running away filming that’s not what operators do. Please stop trying to be someone you’re not.
‘People are dying, you’re running away not helping them and pretending it’s worthy of a video is disgusting.
‘This is why children shouldn’t classify heroes by their followers or their photos.’
Police confirmed that 58 people were killed and 489 were wounded at the mass shooting on Sunday night.
Paddock unloaded thousands of rounds on the event taking place at Las Vegas Village from a room across the street in the Mandalay Bay Hotel at 10:08pm.
Bilzerian had entered the Navy SEAL training program in 2000 but failed to graduate despite several attempts.
Bursts of automatic gunfire are heard in the distance as Bilzerian asks the policeman for a gun
He was reportedly dropped from the program for a ‘safety violation on the shooting range’.
He has also found himself in trouble with the police on numerous occasions.
On December 9, 2014, Bilzerian was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on bomb-making charges.
Those charges were dropped but he appeared in court in February 2015, where he pleaded no contest to ‘negligently failing to extinguish a fire in the open’.
In August 2014, Bilzerian was banned from a Miami nightclub for allegedly kicking model Vanessa Castano in the face during a brawl.
Castano later filed a $1 million lawsuit against Bilzerian for her injuries.
The social media star was criticised for the earlier video, which showed him fleeing the Route 91 Harvest Festival, where he claimed he had seen a girl ‘shot in the head’
Later that same year, Bilzerian landed himself in another legal matter when he threw porn star Janice Griffith off the roof of a house.
Griffith broke her foot when she landed on the edge of a swimming pool, as part of a Hustler photoshoot.
Bilzerian even announced a bid to run for President of the United States in 2015, but pulled out and endorsed Donald Trump later that year.
The 36-year-old, he calls himself the King of Instagram, appears to spend most of his time playing poker and posing with models.
He appears to have been at the music festival when the gunman opened fire.
The shooting broke out on the final night of the three-day Route 91 Harvest festival, a sold-out event attended by 22,000.
Officers breached Paddock’s room on the 32nd floor and found him dead inside, among an ‘arsenal’ of 10 firearms. Lombardo said that Paddock shot himself dead.