Posted on 07/13/2010 3:47:06 AM PDT by marktwain
Edited on 07/13/2010 4:51:40 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LAS VEGAS -- Las Vegas Metro police on Monday identified the three officers who shot and killed an armed man outside a Costco store in Summerlin.
They are Officer William Mosher, 38, a five-year veteran of the department, Officer Joshua Stark, 28, who has been with the department since September 2008, and Officer Thomas Mendiola, 23, who joined the department in March 2009.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox5vegas.com ...
CCW Reference bump! ;-(
The whole department will hunker down and come up with lies and coverups to protect these murderers. They will trash the veteran and and talk about the “life on the line” and stresss, etc etc.
At the end of the day, nothing will happen. The family will get a few million dollars, and these cops will probably get promotions to Detective and just wait to collect their stupid pensions.
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But suppose you call the cops and falsely claim there's a terrorist on the loose in a train station, inciting a stampede of confusion. You should be personally liable for making that false report.
Not where I come from. Here its expected.
Yeah, but it's not my place to heap mental torment on the wicked. I'm all for doing justice on earth, and for these officers, that means FIRED and JAILED and FELONS. I won't get that, but I don't think wishing that for justice is unchristian.
OTOH, wishing them to have unbearable mental torment, perhaps to the point of suicide, well, that is unchristian. And yeah, I hope for that too.
How about “citizens”? ? ? ?
How about “your employer”?
How about “the ones who slave away to pay your salary, pension, and health care benes”?
How about “our customers”?
So why did at least one officer taze him while others shot him. Then as he lay on the ground they shot him again.
What is the race of each of the cops?
Its called murder if you or I did it.
The story at your link reads very different from the one I first read where witnesses said he DIDN'T reach for a weapon. I hope there is security video.
I’ve seen Air Force police do the same thing. A guy forgot his badge and was stopped in hallway. Cops at either end both had their guns pointed at him.
Cops were arguing with each other on what he should do. He didn’t move until they settled their argument. They would have shot each other had they opened fire. I was watching behind a heavy metal door so I was safe.
I recently took a CCW class from 2 former cops. Both said that for a cop it is all about how you present things in your report. You can do anything and get away with it if you present it right because you are presumed honest.
It was disillusioning to those of us who assume cops are honest.
This is the victim’s father...
William B. Scott retired in 2007 as the Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief for Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. During his 22 years with Aviation Week, he also served as Senior National Editor in Washington, and in Avionics and Senior Engineering Editor positions in Los Angeles. He focused primarily on advanced aerospace and weapons technology, business, flight testing and military operations, wrote more than 2,500 stories for the magazine, and received 17 editorial awards. He has coauthored three books: Space Wars: The First Six Hours of World War III (fiction; 2007, 2008, 2010); Inside the Stealth Bomber: The B-2 Story (nonfiction; 1991) and a Space Wars sequel, entitled Counterspace: The Next Hours of World War III, which was released in October 2009.
Scott is a Flight Test Engineer (FTE) graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School (Masters equivalent) and a licensed commercial pilot with instrument and multi-engine ratings. In 12 years of military and civilian flight testing, plus evaluating aircraft for Aviation Week over 22 years, he has logged approximately 2,000 flight hours on 80 aircraft types. He holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University-Sacramento.
During a nine-year Air Force career, Scott served as aircrew on classified nuclear sampling missions; an electronics engineering officer at the National Security Agency; and an instrumentation and flight test engineer (FTE). He also worked as a civilian FTE/program manager and proposal group manager for three aerospace companies: General Dynamics (F-16 Full Scale Development program), Falcon Jet Corp. (Coast Guard HU-25A development and certification), and Tracor Flight Systems Inc. (Canadair Challenger development and certification, plus numerous fighter, transport and helicopter test programs). He currently is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Scott has won three Royal Aeronautical Society “Aerospace Journalist of the Year” awards — the “Best Defense Submission” in 1998 and the “Best Air Show Submission” in both 2006 and 2007. He also was part of an Aviation Week team that won a 2004 Neal Award for its coverage of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. A Neal award is the business-to-business magazine equivalent of a newspaper Pulitzer Prize.
In 2002, Scott served as a member of the U.S. Forest Service/Bureau of Land Management Blue Ribbon Commission on Wildland Aerial Firefighting. The three-month effort examined all aspects of aerial firefighting, and identified a number of systemic factors that contributed to three fatal air tanker and helicopter accidents—including two wing-loss incidents—during the 2002 wildfire season.
He was a founding board member of the Colorado Consortium for Earth and Space Science, which established the Challenger Learning Center of Colorado. He currently serves on the board of the Colorado Homeland Defense Alliance.
Morons, idiots, criminals.
This is tragic, prayers for Scott’s family. Bad cops, plan and simple. Here in Galveston county (I own a bar so I see alot), I have seen deputies make many arrests. Some of those arrests involved arresting a breaking and entering suspect. I’ve never seen them pull their weapon. In fact I am sometimes amazed by the restraint they use in making arrests. My point is these cops were/are poorly trained or perhaps not fit to be cops in the first place. Not all cops are like these, some are really very good at their job. NYC cops were pretty good too, back in the 70’s, probably still are.
““Again - I know cops who refer to us as “civilians”.”
What else would they refer to you as?”
Cops are civilians too.
You are my hero. /s
You’re thinking wrongly again.
It is *FAR* better to apply the Death penalty for this murder than to “lock them up for life.”
What the anti-capital-punishment crowd fails to realize is how dehumanizing it is to cage someone up like an animal disproportionate to the crime’s severity. There are *MANY* cases where I’d rather get corporal punishment [that is, physical] and have it over with than the long and protracted “standard” punishment.
Furthermore, the “Felon” tag is a horrible miscarriage of justice nowadays. What people call “felon” would more correctly be called “ex-felon” because they served their sentence. As far as the law is concerned this should “wipe the slate clean,” but in today’s world of jurisprudence it does not and you (meaning anyone who has ever been tagged a ‘felon’) will never again be able to own a firearm or vote.
I know many cops and they are definately more dishonest than the general public in that regard.
Ever hear the word “Testilie”?
Guys I grew up with who are cops I want nothing to do with after seeing what they do.
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