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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Of course there was a glitch. Of course.
Put a raw image of the drive on the internet. Geeks will have it ferreted out in at most a couple of days.
Some FReepers predicted something like that would happen.
“glitch” (wink, wink, nod.....
Watch the video at the link. Upper right corner.
Erik Scott, 38, died after three police officers fired seven bullets into him. Police said Scott had a gun aimed at them, but some witnesses said they either didn’t see a gun in Scott’s hand or it was in its holster.
Scott, a West Point graduate, had a permit to carry a concealed firearm, family and friend said."
Appears to be quite a flamefest at the originating site.
Tangentially to this, I wonder if the “possibly destroying merchandise” was the customer simply being klutzy and knocking tightly shelved items to the floor, or knocking them over on the shelf then knocking them to the floor while attempting to set them right, in the larger process of trying to examine items among them? I don’t go to Costco, but Walgreens is a good example of a place where the shelving is like that. I have the dexterity of an experienced pianist and still knock those darn Band-Aid and aspirin boxes over, or to the floor. It’s easy to see how a scenario of bad luck and everyone involved assuming the worst and fumbling like Keystone Kops could bring about a senseless disaster like this.
According to one of the witnesses, the victim had broken open a case of sports drinks and was fitting them into a backpack, obviously trying to find out how many the backpack would hold. His actions were deliberate, and while they may have qualified him as being a bit of a jerk I don't think they were worth killing him over.
West Point grad? Doesn’t sound like your typical worthless punk criminal.Unless this was a suicide by cop or he was drunk or high at the time this doesn’t sound very good for the cops from what little I’ve seen.
I hope they've got video of inside the store so people can see what destruction was going on. Probably one dropped item, if that, and a nutty manager who created this whole tragic mess.
Breaking open a box would have been wrong and possibly a reason for Costco to summon their security staff, but many sports drink packs come in plastic yokes, and individual drinks can be slipped out of and back into the yokes. What a tragedy of errors, even if nobody had malice.
“....I wonder if the “possibly destroying merchandise” was the customer simply being klutzy and knocking tightly shelved items to the floor, or knocking them over on the shelf then knocking them to the floor...”
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An earlier article said he opened a set of water bottles to see if the bottles would fit in a cooler. The story said “...Store security called police Saturday afternoon to report a man destroying merchandise. The store was evacuated when security realized the man was armed.”
Apparently there was malice on the part of Costco employees. I advise you to read the earlier articles.
Not at box stores like Costco. You buy in bulk, and packages of things like Gatorade come in 30 or 36 bottle cases encased in shrink-wrapped plastic wrapping. Once broken open they can't be repackaged and sold, it's a loss to the store. Like I said, breaking it open for your own experiment may have been the act of a jackass but was hardly threatening. And certainly not worth killing over.
Not at box stores like Costco. You buy in bulk, and packages of things like Gatorade come in 30 or 36 bottle cases encased in shrink-wrapped plastic wrapping. Once broken open they can't be repackaged and sold, it's a loss to the store. Like I said, breaking it open for your own experiment may have been the act of a jackass but was hardly threatening. And certainly not worth killing over.
He had the audacity to feel like he was a free man to walk around with a permitted weapon on his person
This whole event would be covered and handled entirely differently if Mr. Scoot was a minority
I wonder if the Costco employee is feeling pangs of guilt about hyperbolically ratcheting up a negligible incident that lead directly to this man’s death?
Of course there is a glitch, always something.
This may be a smoldering spark that is unreachable to extinguish, its not going away, the LV police should come clean on this.
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