Posted on 07/28/2010 6:45:39 AM PDT by marktwain
Three officers discharged their firearms with hundreds of witnesses.
Can't wait for that video to be released.
If they shot Rodney King, the video would have been on the evening news that day.
If you were the accused would you want evidence admitted against you simply because it was posted on the Internet?
Ya can’t blame um...they are just trying to be like the Chicago mob currently in the WH.
Were you ever involved in such a public case involving a death that included up to fifty people claiming to be witnesses with different accounts of what they saw?
“Were you ever involved in such a public case involving a death that included up to fifty people claiming to be witnesses with different accounts of what they saw?”
No, why?
Five in the back?
That explanation should be interesting.
Of course not, but I am not the accused, nor am I an accused that is part of the organization that controls the evidence, controls the inquiry, and controls who is allowed to testify.
What is posted on the Internet is free speech. When a citizen is involved in a shooting at a convenience store, the video is available to the public within hours. If the shooter happens to be a police officer in Las Vegas, things appear to be different.
It may be that the police were justified. At the minimum, the department has mishandled the release of information from the start. The Public affairs officer changed the “official” police story three times within hours of the shooting. A select portion of the 911 call that could be interpreted to bolster the police account was released to the public, even though police said they could not release the video or tapes to the public because of the ongoing investigation.
The only way that the LVPD do not further harm their image is complete transparency. This investigation should be turned over to an independent agency. The LV government should not be in charge of investigating their own agents.
So far the only “different accounts” I have seen is that the witnesses do not agree with the LEO’s, who all seem to agree that he DID have a gun in his hand.
Wow, this reeks.
That's not fair to the guy on the left. The guy being shot was an NVA spy, caught in enemy territory in civilian garb instead of a uniform. The Geneva Convention states that captured spies can be summarily executed, which is what is happening here. So this was perfectly legal, while we still don't know for sure about the Costco shooting (and I have my doubts).
That explanation should be interesting.”
I do not find the “Five in the back” shots hard to understand. There is always a bit of a lag between when a decision to shoot is made, and the shots being fired. My speculation is that one of the police “jumped the gun” with the first two shots, and then the other police opened up in reaction to the shots being fired. By that time, a lag of a second or so, Erik Scott had his back to the officers, so that is where the shots hit. As far as I can tell, there was no proper crime scene analysis of shots, body placement, blood drop analysis, etc. after the shooting. That would ordinarily tell us much more about who shot when and if there was anything in Erik Scott's hand when he was shot. When a person is shot, blood tends to fly all over the place, so a good analysis can determine a lot from the orientation and placement of minuscule blood droplets.
Real world forensics is not like CSI, but an amazing amount of information can be gleaned if good crime scene evidence collection is done.
Being a former cop, if I did what these cops did I would have been indicted. The 2 front shots would be justified if, and I say if he had a gun in his hand and was deemed a threat. However 5 in the back while he was down and not a threat is excessive and there is no way in hell they can justify that. Also I read that he had been tasered as well. These cops are going to jail. And if the local DA won’t indict, you can be sure that the federal DA for that district will.
If that is tire this was a bad shooting. Makes me sick.
I recall that the guy being shot was part of a “hit squad” of NVA during the Tet offensive, that had been captured from the scene of where the officer doing the shooting’s family had been slaughtered. It has been a while.
tire=true. More coffee please miss.
The brazen coverups are getting more.... brazen.
Pretty soon, the police chiefs in these sort of situations will get on camera, and start yelling, “YEAH! WE DID IT! SO F$(#ING WHAT???!? WHADDYA GONNA F$(#ING DO ABOUT IT, YA F$(#ING FISHLIPPED FAIRY??!??”
Then they’ll pull out their revolver and cap the reporter right behind the ear.
And nothing will come of it.
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Your point being......?
Welcome to the 21st Century, Mr. L!
And you thought that the 20th Century was a hellish mess - wait’ll you see what the State has in store for you now!
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