Posted on 07/24/2010 5:01:55 AM PDT by show me state
LAS VEGAS -- Friends and family of Erik Scott, the man shot to death at a Costco store by Las Vegas police, are taking their message to roadside billboards.
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True, the lab would fear losing their future business by impugning its customer. This really ought to have been handled through a court judge. (But again how often does Las Vegas send a damaged disk drive to California for data recovery?)
I think that the answer to this is going to be *Backing The Brother. Peer response with force as a whole is easier to excuse (All saw a threat) vs individual officer force application with peers not firing at what only ONE officer sees/perceives.
Hey doc, what kind of car do you drive? You work over at St. Mary's hospital, right?
Shop lifting although a crime is not a capital offense crime...I didn’t read the article but did the citizen pull his gun on the cops? If not they overreacted as judge, jury and executioner....imho
I don't think you can lay this man's death at the manager's feet. The manager didn't call the police with the intent of having the man killed.
Father wants Las Vegas police held accountable in son's death
Police said the man was "acting erratically" and "destroying merchandise" in the store, but Bill Scott said he has been told by his son's girlfriend and others that the interaction with the employee was cordial, and the employee even helped load the bottles into the cart.
He was probably going to buy the sports drinks, and was trying to decide if he wanted to buy the backpack.
Read the early articles. They said an armed man was in the store acting erratically and destroying merchandise. None of the more than 40 witnesses back that up.
“When he was on the ground, dying, (the police) shot him two more times. There were people standing just a few feet away from him.”
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If that police action is true, it may be grounds for murder.
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I love it!!!
It was in witness statements. This was mishandled from the beginning. And an innocent man is dead.
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“It used to be that there would soon be an announcement on the P.A. system “would the mother of little Johnny please come to the service desk? he is waiting here for you.” And she’d come and get little Johnny, and that would be that.”
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You can thank the @55hole lawyers for racheting up everything that used to be so trivial.
I was hoping for a different outcome, but I have to say that this threadbare excuse is entirely consistent with LVMPD’s previous cases of shooting people and wrongful deaths. The evidence always seems compromised, there are always conflicting accounts, the officers were always green, there were difficult circumstances, blah, blah, blah.
Absolutely NONE of which will result in the dismissal of any cop for incompetence, no admission of fault or wrongdoing. It is just “tragic” the it had to cometo this, blah, blah, blah.
Heaven forbid there are real consequences.
The taxpayers are going to bend over on this, as usual. LVMPD is fast with their checkbook because that is how they’ve been taught to handle this. This one is probably going to cost triple the going rate for a dead innocent citizen, reckon high six digits to low seven digits.
He has some culpability if he lied about Mr. Scott’s demeanor and reactions.
Every time their cops gun somebody down under questionable circumstances in front of a bank of store surveillance cameras?
In all honesty, I really doubt the disk drive was damaged (at least prior to the incident). I can be cynical like that.
IMHO carrying a concealed weapon without wearing an bullet proof vest seems illogical. The need for one would surely neccessitate the need for the other... wouldn’t it? Of course he had the right to do whatever he wished, but when it comes to life or death situations, offensive capabilities are only 50% of the equation.
If the watchdog function over this could be divorced from the drug legalization advocacy, it would gain immensely in clout. IMHO. Mixing in the drug issue gets eyes rolling in those who aren’t already true believers.
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