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Officer in Costco shooting says man raised gun, didn’t know it was in holster
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 23 Sept 2010 | Cara McCoy, Dave Toplikar

Posted on 09/24/2010 9:34:59 AM PDT by Mr Rogers

This comes from a Vegas paper, so I'll summarize:

Day 1 of the inquest into the police shooting of Eric Scott at a Las Vegas Costco emphasized the large amount of prescription painkillers found in his body. The assistant DA suggested Scott was suicidal.

Day 2 apparently spent a bunch of time explaining why there will be no video...basically, the machines weren't working, sorry.

Then the cop who was closest to Scott testified. In his testimony, he says the gun found by investigators was in its holster, and that he didn't realize the gun was in its holster when he shot Scott. That info comes about 2/3 of the way into the article:

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/sep/23/officer-deadly-shooting-says-man-pointed-gun-didnt/

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; costco; donutwatch; erikscott; morphine
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To: scory
Doesn’t LVPD have any standards covering minimal physical requirements for its officers? I guess not based on the picture of the one who led the firing squad.

If the LVPD murderers on the Costco firing squad would have stopped to get those little electric Costco carts for the disabled, it might have saved Erik's life...

161 posted on 09/24/2010 11:48:58 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: sfg-18b

It is not flaming it is educating. The right to keep and bear arms is such an important subject it would be helpful if the clueless read and learned rather than posted nonsense.

If one doesn’t even know what something is they should refrain from acting like an expert on it.

A “sealed weapon permit” is not a typo for concealed carry permit or concealed handgun license. It is proof positive of ignorance on the entire subject.

The subsequent posts are further proof.


162 posted on 09/24/2010 11:49:13 AM PDT by Eaker (Pablo is very wily)
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To: SnakeDoctor
Platitudes and 30-year “fault” records are insufficent to condemn a cop for killing a man that drew a weapon.

So you didn't read any of the other threads.

Apparently you didn't read this article either. Scott was given conflicting commands. He didn't "draw" on the police.

163 posted on 09/24/2010 11:49:22 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: SnakeDoctor
seemingly: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

The cops had to get the Costco snitch to identify the target, who was just standing around, like all the other innocent bystanders

164 posted on 09/24/2010 11:50:09 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Pardon him...he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe ... are the laws of nature)
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To: Fundamentally Fair
Dieing sux worse, Shai

Getting a guy executed sux even worse, Shai.

165 posted on 09/24/2010 11:50:27 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: smokingfrog
If he was taking that amount of drugs, he should not have been carrying a gun.

Look. The "drugs" angle is just for the smear.

166 posted on 09/24/2010 11:52:22 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: Fundamentally Fair

Finally. A picture of the perp.


167 posted on 09/24/2010 11:53:54 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: Dead Corpse
That sucks... I like getting my pistachios from Costco.

It would be a bummer for you if you accidentally got on Shia Lierly's nerves while you were picking up some pistachios, and he fingered you for the local NKVD squad.

168 posted on 09/24/2010 11:57:25 AM PDT by kiryandil
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To: SnakeDoctor

The holster? Not only did he go directly to Scott and touch him on his right arm but Mosher was only 6 ft. away when he fired the first shot.

Funny.....the Cops in my family say this was way over the top reaction by the cops....quote “The cover-up is always worse than the crime”


169 posted on 09/24/2010 11:58:53 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: Fundamentally Fair
He had 5-25 times the lethal amount?

so the cops really didnt kill scott, it was the EMTs fault...

170 posted on 09/24/2010 11:59:27 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: monkeyshine
If so, that regulation needs to change in situations like this. I cannot believe that a cop would order a person to touch his weapon. It would be the other way around. ‘Put up your hand’ and ‘keep your hands in plain sight’ etc. The same way as in a traffic stop. Everyone knows to keep your hands in plain sight during a traffic stop.

NKVD Metro likes it this way. They can execute you between donut breaks, and get paid OT for a rigged dog-and-pony show Free Day Friday.

171 posted on 09/24/2010 12:00:13 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: panthermom

Actually ... my point was that the holster doesn’t make much difference. You can shoot through a holster.

SnakeDoc


172 posted on 09/24/2010 12:02:47 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: Fundamentally Fair

So they didn’t really kill Erik Scott because he was already dead from a morphine overdose?


173 posted on 09/24/2010 12:03:21 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: Mr Rogers
How is it the Dallas Police were able to arrest this leftard wacko inside a movie theater with only minor damage (he did resist arrest), knowing he was armed, dangerous, and, at the very least, a cop killer?

Yet, in far less difficult circumstances, these Las Vegas pigs killed a West Point grad who was none of the above.

174 posted on 09/24/2010 12:05:04 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: kiryandil
Smartcarry. Unless I'm getting felt up, there isn't any possible way for them to know.

If I'm getting felt up, they've got more to worry about from my wife than from me.

175 posted on 09/24/2010 12:05:57 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; luvbach1

in Indiana, i never went to a cop and asked, but was told by several gunshop guys, who deal leo trades, that the permit was concealed only...FWIW...


176 posted on 09/24/2010 12:07:56 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Don't wast your time talking to SnakeDoctor - he LOVES the taste of jack-boot leather.

"Conservatives" like him are one of the big reasons why we have a Police State in all but name.

177 posted on 09/24/2010 12:09:55 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: nkycincinnatikid

"Squeal like a pig!"

If that were my son this fat POS murdered he would be looking over his shoulder every single day of the rest of his short life.

178 posted on 09/24/2010 12:10:50 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: luvbach1

Actually, he used the proper term “concealed”, which you changed to “sealed”.

He may be beating a straw man, but that’s not the one.


179 posted on 09/24/2010 12:11:22 PM PDT by MortMan (Obama's response to the Gulf oil spill: a four-putt.)
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To: Lurker
I,m sure the citizens of Las Vegas sleep better at night knowing that the fat,donut munching slob, killer of citizens is out there protecting them.
180 posted on 09/24/2010 12:15:39 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Gus the Scotty dog likes cheese!)
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