That, and "raising your voice" to an unreasonable minimum wage Costco drone.
I can't remember who said his voice was "elevated". Some witnesses said that it was all very low key.
You know if some guy was brandishing a gun, shoppers would have been running. I'm wondering if that's why Costco evacuated the store....to make it look like shoppers were fleeing. It's not a very nice thought but then this whole incident stinks.
Hopefully there will be a video that will clear up the conflicting claims about whether he drew the gun on the cops. Based on what has been reported so far, it sounds unlikely to me that he did but we’ll see. The other thing I have been wondering about is whether, and this is sheer speculation on my part, the cops yelled “drop the gun” when it was still holstered, which is pretty hard to comply with without getting shot.
I also note that the senior cop is one who previously shot and killed an burglary suspect who the cop claimed was trying to run him over (and the cop was later officially cleared of wrongdoing). I have always been unsympathetic to police officers in such shootings because I don’t accept that shooting the driver is an acceptable or reasonable method of avoiding getting run over. It seems more like something could be claimed subjectively, without much ability to disprove it, in almost any circumstance where a cop shoots a suspect behind the wheel.
Lastly, there have to be tons and tons of people carrying weapons in stores all around America every day. I don’t know why seeing a handgun should cause any normal person to flip out. If this goes the way I am guessing it will, I hope the family ends up owning Costco. And Las Vegas to boot.