Posted on 08/04/2010 6:03:32 AM PDT by marktwain
In the back!!! ack!
Still no video, huh?
Figures.
They ALL need to be charged at this point. COSTCO, the police, the county..
Every last one of them.
They are desperately looking for a large bucket of whitewash.
Looks like some cops and costco employees should be sued into poverty and/or thrown in prison.
Does intentionally misrepresenting a situation in a 9/11 call constitute a crime?
Self defense shootings are often dynamic and fluid. It takes an appreciable amount of time, perhaps .25 seconds to .75 seconds for the decision to pull a trigger to translate into the gun firing. During that time it is not unusual to have the assailant turn, or react to a first shot in such a way that the assailant is shot in the back.
My guess, in this case, is that the victim, Erik Scott, was shot in the chest, then in the back as the other officers opened up, after hearing the first officer shoot. That does not make this shooting justified.
“*Allegedly* Slain by Vegas Police”?????
Allegedly? The cops admit they shot him. And he is dead.
So why the word allegedly?
BTT
So why the word allegedly?
It’s required as per Journalism 101. The shooting also occurred in a “close-knit community”
Several witnesses said that as Scott laid on the ground writhing, the officers shot him again. It’s in earlier threads.
Yhis one smells.
Americans have repeatedly demanded an all powerful government and authoritarian police.
I was a journalist for 20-something years. “Allegedly” is used only where the facts are not clear and is not a defense for slander or libel. It seems pretty clear here that the police killed this man. This is simply bad writing.
NRS 207.280 False reporting of crimes unlawful. Every person who deliberately reports to any police officer, sheriff, district attorney, deputy sheriff, deputy district attorney or member of the Department of Public Safety that a felony or misdemeanor has been committed, which causes a law enforcement agency to conduct a criminal or internal investigation, knowing such report to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
The tapes have probably disappeared. So sorry.
The word “allegedly” is used to protect an individual accused of a crime, keeping him from being prejudged by the potential jury pool and to protect the media from lawsuits from those individuals claiming innocence.
In this case, there are two undisputed facts. This victim WAS shot. And the police have admitted shooting him.
Thus, there is no need to use the word “allegedly.” Everyone agrees, even the police, that the victim was shot and killed.
You’re right. Even here on FR, any criticism of the all-holy, all-righteous police will result in cries of protest. If the cops shot him, he musta needed shootin’, right?
I would say, Yes. Would be right up there with called in bomb threats.
I would like to know more about the manager that called this in...
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