Posted on 07/21/2010 2:23:24 PM PDT by marktwain
Witness statements disagree with that assessment. An older couple stated he was trying bottles to see if they fit in his backpack. They stated that at no time were any voices raised etc.
Escalation on the part of the employees. Possible pay back for being 'dissed'.
One of the articles said that an employee helped him put the bottles that he wanted in a cart. Another said that while this was going on, another employee was around the corner of the aisle on a bluetooth talking to police. I read somewhere in one of those articles that the employees padded the story to expedite police arrival.
The “manager is a green beret and is allowed to carry” may be a misinterpretation of Eric Scott identifying himself as a former military officer with a CCW. I haven't heard any witnesses corroborate the “being told to leave” part. I have heard many police say that when they are called to a store where a person “has been asked to leave”, they always take the management to the person so that they can witness the demand that the person leave. They say it is common for the person being asked to leave to say that no one asked them before, because management is often trying to get the police to to their job, as management does not want to confront the person themselves.
I’d bet that they padded the story. Out of over 40 witness staements, 12 agreed with some of the cops story or Costco’s.
Also sounds like there were plenty of Costco emps agitating him.
It’s starting to sound to me like you have a hidden agenda here.
He wasn’t throwing anything. He had opened a box of pop and was placing them into a backpack. Why I have no idea perhpas to see if they fit before he bought both?
If the employee did that then they are partially responsible for his death and they and Costco should be civily sued by his family.
I believe that they are partially responsible. Freepers that live or have lived in LV say it is a very corrupt PD and town. They may get away with this. I hope not but it’s happened before.
Where did you hear it was pop? I read it was bottles for water. Those plastic or metal things.
A chain of careful actions which failed at the trigger finger of an f'n moron.
You noticed that too? since when do military, or retired military, have any more rights under the law that us Peons? Of course the guy may have a NV CHL license.
My AF reserve CO (although at that point, he may have been the XO) reminded me, as soon as he found out I was a shooter and gun owner, that being in the military did not exempt one from the then ridiculous Texas carry ban, except when on duty in the official conduct of ones duties of course. Things are much better now, that was back in the days when Queen Ann vetoed a bill that would have merely allowed the people of Texas to vote on the matter.
Oh I think you are right it was water bottles from one of the value pack things, I was drawing from memory and obiviously it isn’t as good as your recall was....
Eric Scott was CCL, while the manager was 'allowed' due to status (his own) in the store. The 'allowed' one may have been the dissed person who pissed all over Scott.
*How are your knees? Get them fixed yet?
Except that he was a tanker and not SF. But he Scott have a concealed carry permit, and was allowed to carry a gun, under Nevada law.
Something fishy here. How could he know it was a 9mm if he just glanced at it?
It sounds to me like the manager and/or employee was blowing this all out of porportion. I can imagine Scott saying something like “It’s legal, I have a permit. I was a soldier for Christ’s sake!” (And yes - perhaps a bit of “attitude” defending his fighting for such freedoms as affirmed in our Constitution.
This becomes “He’s some sort of Rambo Green Beret guy and getting all whacked out.” And aren’t all the rap songs about 9mm pistols? Too many movies and MTV videos I think. As I said, most of the witnessess said the gun was in a zippered holster. Although that doesn’t make the most sense to me as a CCW person.
I don't think the MGr. was ever a witness to anything and was realaying something one employee told another who told another. By the time it got to the Mgr. Scott was spun into tearing up the store.
I don't think the MGr. was ever a witness to anything and was realaying something one employee told another who told another. By the time it got to the Mgr. Scott was spun into tearing up the store.
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