Posted on 03/28/2011 10:04:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
Metro covered up the Scott killing. I’d like to see a crack in the blue shield that would expose the fraud.
This could work either way for the Scott family. It could be the crack that opens the entire crooked dam up or it could be leverage to see that he keeps his rookie mouth shut.
Time will tell. Whatever happens this was such a blatantly bad shoot that the LV Metro PD is going to pay a huge civil judgement.
Are the store security tapes still ‘lost’?
“The last witness to testify at the coroners inquest was Barbara Fee, who was waiting in line with her granddaughter when they were told to evacuate the store.
Her granddaughter pointed out that there was an officer with a gun by the door.
Fee said she heard the officer yelling at Scott to get down, but he didn’t.
She saw Scott reach for something on his side and then bring his right hand up and point something directly at the officer.
Fee said she couldn’t tell what was in Scott’s hand, but his hand was pointed, “directly at the cop.”
The officer fired, and she looked away while pushing her granddaughter behind her, Fee said.
When she looked back, she saw Scott face-down on the ground and a black object on the ground.
Fee said she was worried Scott was going to shoot the officer.
“I was hoping he wasn’t going to shoot the cop, but with a gesture like that I thought somebody was going to get shot,” she said.
She told police after the shooting that she didn’t think the officer had any option to shoot Scott.
“Thank God the officer was faster,” she said in her statement to police.”
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This woman, and all the costco people who said he was acting erratic, and throwing things around off the shelves, ripping open boxes,,,
Oh, and his girlfriend who accompanied him didnt bother to come testify.
Supporting CCW does not mean that he was some harmless guy. An otherwise nice guy can have some episode causing mental confusion, erratic behavior etc. The FR cop hating brigade aside,, a lot of non cop people in that store were freaked out fightened of him. That happens for a reason. And vegas is not like Manhattan where everyone faints dead away at the sight of a gun.
This case isn’t the “cause” that some people wish it was. Being a wonderful honorable soldier once, doesn’t mean that person remains decent, sane, or in other good health forever.
You sir or madame, are a jerk.
For some reason the crack firm they were sent to had problems recovering the images. Go figure.
Bump for Bootlickers.
Why should Nevada public employee unions have to worry about behaving ethically? They own the leader of the US Senate.
May justice for the Scott family finally be served in this case, and may everyone involved in the killing of an innocent man in the end receive exactly what they deserve.
Imagine, most cops go their entire careers without discharging their weapons once.
And you, sir, are wilfully blind if you don't acknowledge the existence of "the FR cop hating brigade."
It sounds like Las Vegas cops rival New Orleans cops in the corruption/incompetence arena.
There is a cop hating brigade on FR, no question about it.
I know there are bad cops, but, I know there are good ones, too.
What bothers me about this is the missing tapes. Why? I think they are hiding something. It smells.
If the tapes were provided I’d feel more comfortable that justice was being served.
They're not missing. They were sent to a forensic recovery firm paid by LV Metro PD. That firm says they're 'unrecoverable'. Mighty convenient that.
bttt
Both menace the public.
Yes, that’s what makes me suspicious about this apparent murder. I tend to favor police but I am not naive and I know that there are some bad cops.
On March 14 that same year he pulled a gun on a woman and her husband because their lab barked at him. “she was upset because (Scott) had pulled a gun on her dog and her husband.” The officer advised her to file a police report and then quarantined her chocolate lab when she could not provide proof of rabies vaccination or a license.
The next day, the dog owner told police that Scott had pointed a gun at him and said, “Your (sic) lucky I didn’t (expletive) kill your dog.”
A police officer wrote up a report, but no charges were ever filed against Scott. The dog owner could not be reached for comment for this article.
Two short marriages produced two written allegations of domestic violence,,,, BEFORE this happened.
In October 1999, Scott’s first wife, Violet, filed a report with the Arapahoe County, Colo., sheriff’s office and alleged that Scott cupped her face in his hands and slammed her head into the ground. The incident left her dizzy, seeing stars and black spots, she wrote. He also threatened, “I want to kill you, (expletive)!”
Colorado authorities issued an arrest warrant for Scott, but he apparently was unaware of it for several months.
Those issues continued in his second marriage, to Lydia Gorzoch. When contacted by the Review-Journal after his death in July, she e-mailed a curt response: “I divorced Erik Scott because he was an angry and violent man with erratic behavior who abused steroids and acquired a serious addiction to pain killers. I’m not the least bit surprised about what happened; He was on an extremely destructive path when I left him and I never expected Erik to live to see 40.”
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And no, im not a jerk. And i’m not insulting his character. But it’s extremely easy to look and see numerous non-cop people who knew him *and liked or loved him*, quoted by several different papers as saying that say he was on pain pills following an accident, and that he was a bodybuilder that used steroids. (according to his father who testified that he used human grown hormone under a doctor’s supervision) I’m giving the guy the benefit of the doubt,,, i think his meds and steroids, combined with a mind bendingly hot day in Las Vegas, to somehow make him unstable and erratic. Even dehydration comes to mind considering his behaviors,,
Sad outcome,, but that’s all, only sad. Despite his condition, whatever it was,,,, mentally erratic people will never get much latitude with a gun in a busy store. For all i know, in his confused state, he pulled out the gun to give to the officer. Anyone in their right mind would know to never touch a gun when confronted by officers. Thats another reason i vote that he was off the rails mentally that day,,, Glad no bystanders got hurt.
I disagree.
And i’m not insulting his character
No, you tossed out a barb at fellow Freepers. That's why I said what I did.
Have a nice day.
Jensen testified that Scott didn’t have a permit to carry the gun that was in his pocket when he was shot.
Scott carried a Ruger .380 semi-automatic handgun and a .45-caliber Kimber single-action pistol. The Kimber was found in its holster not far from where Scott’s body landed after he was shot. The Ruger was found in Scott’s clothing as he was being taken to the hospital.
Scott had a concealed carry permit and seven gun registrations in his wallet, but the permit didn’t include the Ruger.
“That’s a felony crime in Nevada,” Jensen said.
The permit did list a .380 Kel Tec, which is similar.
Jensen also testified that Scott was not a Green Beret and had not served overseas in the military.
Costco employee Shai Lierley previously testified that Scott said he was a Green Beret when he was told his gun was not allowed in the store.
Jensen said when he interviewed Scott’s girlfriend, he asked if Scott was a Green Beret. She told him he had done some stuff “they don’t talk about.”
Jensen said he checked out Scott’s DD-214 separation papers from the military.
“We found he had no special forces training and wasn’t a Green Beret,” Jensen said. Jensen said they also found Scott was honorably discharged in 1996.
The final witness Tuesday was Coroner Mike Murphy, who testified that the family was told more than once how to provide the names of witnesses to bring to the inquest but had not done so.
Goodman previously indicated that the family was withholding its witnesses until there was a fair hearing into the shooting. More than 60 witnesses testified during the six days of the inquest.
Goodman indicated that the family would be seeking punitive damages in the federal lawsuit.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/28/jury-shooting-justified/
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