He lied about being a Marine, too. He's a Marine like Hillary! and Dan Rather.
Gunned Down in Vegas: What Really Happened to Erik Scott?
This is a government vs citizens issue. The cops ARE the government.
Ritchie SWATed this guy to death. In my book, this was premeditated murder using the police as the murder weapon.
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It looks to me like his description is more accurate than the family’s. The family claims he wasn’t swinging it around, and it was pointing down the whole time, except once when he shoulders it for a second then points it back down again. Look at the video below and he clearly was holding it by the grip and swinging it around, using the barrel to push stuff around on the shelf etc. He does it pretty much he whole time. I don’t see anywhere where Richie lied about what the guy was doing. When Richie says it looks like he was loading it, you don’t know what Richie’s point of view was. The operator is asking what he’s doing and it may have looked like that’s what he was doing from his viewpoint. Anyway, the family is clearly lying when they say he never waived it around.
This guy lied about what he was witnessing, and the surveillance video proves it.
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People should watch the video and decide for themselves. Was he being malicious or doing the best he could under the circumstances? He wasn’t watching the videotape. He was keeping an eye on Crawford, while warning shoppers away from the area, and trying to keep from being seen.