police crimes
legalized gangs
think they are soooooooooooooo tough
never call them if you need help
they come too late
they shoot you instead
they love to exercise their power
they have sh8t for brains
Building up to blowback. So wrong, so easily avoided.
How wonderful that we have a municipality where the Police almost NEVER act improperly!/s
They sure look out for their own.
“In the past 34 years, only one Metro officer has ever been found to have acted improperly out of at least 190 inquests, and that officer wasn’t charged with a crime.”
The same result will happen again. We are living in a police state.
i have two cousins whom graduated wp.
something went real bad. in my experience these men and women never exhibit erratic behaviour.
i find my experience is not worth much, lately.
Murder. RIP Erik Scott. The real war is on our second amendment... it is going to get worse before it gets better. Bank on it.
“To hear the side of the story presented by Scott’s family, friends, and some eyewitnesses, Erik Scott’s death was the result of ignorance and embellishment on the part of the Costco staff, and a combative, deterministic mindset from responding officers.”
“We do not know precisely what was said in that important call, because the police have refused to release it. We do, however, know from police radio traffic picked up by a scanner that the guard had told police that Erik Scott was armed with a gun, was acting aggressively and erratically, and that he may have been under the influence of drugs.”
Second paragraph just CONFIRMS the first paragraph.
These criminals (police) should be facing the death penalty.
Sounds like the security guard wasn’t trained properly regarding the law and procedures regarding confrontation of a possible situation(not probable). His call to 911 was probably frantic(why else would so many cops show up). There is a lot more to this incident than we know, cops want to protect themselves and the family wants the truth.
Hopefully this case will be different as I believe Erik Scott’s dad sounds like a determined man based on other articles I’ve read. Clearly the Metro PD is out of control with some real hotshots out on the street.
Costco also shares real blame in this tragedy with the hysterical call and the ensuing coverup, especially with the video. I’ll never set foot in a Costco again.
I went through a SF pistol course. Kicking in doors, not shooting the ‘prisoner’, that kind of thing. After a while you get conditioned to aquire targets real fast. Well, that’s when the instructors started to mess with you. They put groceries in the terrorists hands, and pistols in the lady ‘prisoner’s hands. This was the second part of the course where they trained you to see what you saw, not what you expected or were jacked up to see. They wanted to burn into you that your mind would play tricks on you.
I don’t think police get that kind of training. They just seem to get a minimal...’Drop the...( bang bang ) gun, and do( bang bang )...’.
I’ve seen plenty of video arrests where one jacked up officer is yelling ‘put your hands up’, another is yelling ‘Don’t move’ and a third is yelling ‘ get down, get down’, while the first officer who yelled ‘get your hands up’ is getting mad because the subject is sort of hands up, down, not moving, getting down, not getting down.
Just as I said the next day after this occurred, the witnesses near him said police shouted conflicting commands and then shot him before he could do much of anything.
12 of 40 witnesses, who likely weren’t in a position to see what was going on, agreed with the police version of events.
You know, it’d be a shame if these three officers were found hanging from a cactus somewhere out in the desert. Only sayin’, y’know?
“It must have been a frightening tale: over a dozen police officers responded, along with a helicopter, ambulance, and competing incident command teams.”
With that much ‘investment’ of manpower and equipment, somebody had to die to justify the cost.
I really really hope Erik’s parents and his girlfriend get a HUGE chunk of money from COSTCO in the wrongful death lawsuit. The primary root cause was the Costco employee embellishing his call to the police, and strangely the internal Costco security cameras that would have shown what Erik was really doing and acting were “glitched”.
No, We do not know what the guard told police. All we know is what the police told police
Cops cause crimes.
In this case: MURDER of a good man in cold blood.
At least ONE of those three cops is no better, nor deserves less harsh a penalty, than the two beasts currently on trial in Connecticut.
Probably a series of misunderstandings here. There are some people who see anyone who disagrees with them as “aggressive” and that is probably exaccerbated when the individual is armed. Same for acting erratically, as when opening packages you haven’t bought. When cops hear about an armed individual acting aggressively or erratically, it means something different than an argument or opening packages. The other problem is concealed carry means CONCEALED. Accidentally flashing your weapon is a big no-no and the mistake that started the commotion. NONE OF THIS EXCUSES THE BEHAVIOR OF THE TRIGGER HAPPY COPS WHO SHOULD SPEND THEIR LIVES IN JAIL.