Posted on 07/30/2010 3:25:52 PM PDT by Lance Romance
It's going to take longer to find out exactly what happened during that fatal police shooting at the Summerlin Costco earlier this month.
The inquest was scheduled for September third.
But now the Clark County District Attorney's office has requested that the coroner's inquest be postponed indefinitely.
the inquest would have determined if three officers were justified in the use of deadly force against Erik Scott on July 10th.
Clark County District Attorney David Roger says his office asked for the delay partly because they have not yet received witness statements and reports from metro police.
Roger also says there may be hundreds of witnesses to sift through because the shooting happened on a busy Saturday afternoon.
This request comes on the heels of public outrage that questions the transparency of this investigation.
Metro has not released the 911 tapes.
Police are also saying... There may have been a glitch in the store's surveillance system the day of the fatal shooting and the cameras may have not recorded the ordeal.
Those hard drives have been sent out of state for forensic analysis.
I remember one metro officer involved in a 2 shootings in 1 week; in the same location ! Cleared on both as good.
There's been stories like yours on these Erik Scott/Costco threads. This shooting may be a problem for them this time.
From the stories on these threads, you're right, not a good bet. They are very corrupt.
Been following this story for awhile on different threads and there is a definite lack of boot lickers commenting.
It certainly sounds like a cover-up on behalf of the Las Vegas cops. The evidence must be damning. Too bad we don’t currently have an impartial Federal Justice department.
Don’t forget Costco. The Costco tapes are the ones with problems. They may have been “accidentally” glitched by Costco security when it was found that the customer was not actually doing anything to warrant a police call. Costco has to cover their a$$ on this one too.
“It certainly sounds like a cover-up on behalf of the Las Vegas cops. The evidence must be damning. Too bad we dont currently have an impartial Federal Justice department.”
We’ll be glad to loan you our US Atty. He just successfully obtained the indictments of a bunch of Cops for a shooting cover-up during Katrina. He’s a good guy.
Word was a COSTCO employee called 911 with hystrical rants about a man waving a gun etc.
People mistakinly believe the cops will show faster if it is a ‘man with a call call’. They will. And they will be so amped up - as we see here - NOBODY will be safe.
Question
IF this many people saw the shooting -why no cell phone vids as yet?
911 tapes - only a few excerpts - if they cops will trelease that - than ALL should be released.
As for COSTCO - toast!
Good idea to keep an eye on "other trials" in Vegas courts. Catch 'em red-handed.
If the videos from one store are no good then they're probably no good for the other stores as well.
Lots of lawyers out there with clients who've been caught ripping off COSTCO can use that to discredit the cases against the.
Or, COSTCO will come up with the right stuff before they get picked clean.
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