Here are some important facts:
1 - The cops confronted Scott in a crowd, although he was NOT acting erratically. How do I know? Because Mosher was looking for an erratic gunman, and he let Scott walk past him with no idea that Scott was the psycho. This was 6 second, IIRC, before they shot Scott. If Scott was the weirdo you suggest, why were Las Vegas’s finest unable to detect him 6 seconds prior to shooting?
2 - From the first word spoken by a cop to the first shot was, according to the DA, TWO SECONDS! So less than two seconds after Mosher started saying his first word, Mosher started pulling the trigger. Just how was Scott supposed to do ANYTHING in under TWO SECONDS?
Darn right he didn’t drop to the ground. It wasn’t physically possible to do so between the end of the first sentence spoken and the time Mosher opened fire.
Dude, that is murder. Scott did NOT have a gun in his hand. It was found holstered, and it would not have been possible to fire the gun without first removing it from the holster. Scott would probably have needed to rack the slide, or at least draw, take off the safety, pull the hammer back, and then fire.
He had roughly one third the time it takes to read the sentence above. Less than 2 seconds from first spoken word to bullet on the way.
That isn’t something some cop hater claims. That is what the DA says happened. And that is murder. Not manslaughter, but murder by a trigger happy cop.
I believe Mosher's first shot, delivered in two seconds and as he was bringing his weapon up, hit the holstered weapon which was on Scott's thigh at the time.
If it was in the process of being drawn I would expect it would be somewhere other than on his thigh.