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Posted on 07/27/2010 4:49:21 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
A coroner's inquest in the fatal Metro Police shooting of a man at a Summerlin Costco store has been postponed, but a new date has not yet been set, according to the Clark County Coroner's Office.
The original coroner's inquest was scheduled for Sept. 3.
Coroner Mike Murphy said the Clark County District Attorney's office asked for the postponement, so the inquest has been put on hold.
"It's not a question of if it's going to be conducted, but when," Murphy said.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Does the DA asking for this delay give you any reason to think the DA is doing its job and not just whitewashing this? I know if I were the shooters, this would make me nervous. Afterall if the DA is thinking of charging someone, they would not want an inquest to call it a good shooting before they got around to charges. Of course it could also be the fix is in.
I honestly don’t know. All we can do is note the increasing stack of inconsistent witness statements, delays, conveniently error prone magnetic media, etc and come to a conclusion in light of prior cases like this in Vegas that LVMPD is at the VERY least one of the most incompetent large city PD’s in the nation.
The DA in Vegas hasn’t brought these stooges to justice yet - perhaps because the LVMPD takes care to settle out of court to avoid running into the DA.
My guess is that:
1. The shooters are never allowed back on the streets of LV again. It would just be too costly to allow them to ever shoot someone again particularly the two time killer.
2. The shooters are viewed as expendible already by the police higher ups. It sounds to this person very far removed that LVPD have a PR problem and they may well try to solve it by throwing these guys under the bus.
3. The DA also has a PR problem and charging someone would solve that.
So unless there are tapes showing Mr. Scott clearly and obviously threatening those cops, I fully expect resignations and charges. It would be bureaucratically stupid not to go that way.
I agree with you. The law does not cover the peons. The peons will start taking care of themselves.
Jerry Spence you are needed again.
Well stupid might be what individual cops do best. What I was saying was the police bureaucracy has a lot of incentive to throw these three under the bus. I will not be surprised when it happens.
And part of the reason it may happen is that they want to protect their perk of being able to shoot whenever scared. They will want the public off their backs on this one.
Which is counter to many eyewitness accounts. Part of this game is to delay any investigation and publish the police version over and over and over...until it is the prevailing account.
I wonder what has happened to those hard drives from Costco’s surveillance system that had to be sent to California for ‘forensics’ review.
Trevon Cole was shot once in the bathroom of his apartment after he made what police described as “a furtive movement.”
Gotta watch those "furtive movements."
I would hazard a guee that Costco has at least digital video recorders, and 1 frame per second would be incredibly slow. Real time is around 30fps and most anything over 5-8fps will give pretty good video short of sleight of hand type motion. To get 1 fps you would have to load up other cameras to the max, and would be defeating use of the cameras for shoplifting surveillance if they were recording at 1 fps. Most DVR’s are capable of much more than 1 fps even with some cameras maxed out. Resolution can also play into frame rate, higher resolution, lower frame rate. Interesting info you have, is it reliable? The action supposedly took place near the exit anyway would that be high or low fps cameras?
The entire front end has full time video at NTSC rate and resolution.
The other cams are 360 and take shots all around the circle in succession.
Cops protect partners. The police bureaucracy protects cops until it becomes too costs. This seems pretty costly to me, but we shall see.
I would guess by full NTSC you are referring to D-1 resolution, 720 by 480 at 30 fps (+=). The 360 sounds like a Grandeye Halocam, set at a low frame rate and unknown resolution, and in this case may turn out to be an expensive boat anchor. The average time to draw and shoot a weapon is about 1.5 seconds and Marshall Dillon might make it in around .5 seconds or so.
I actually saw an outake of the beginning of Gunsmoke where Marshal Dillon lost and was killed....those TV producers had a sense of humor or had an out in case they needed to write Arness out of the show. (maybe wage leverage?)
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