[JSteff]

It sure appears now Scott was “carrying while hammered”. A dumbass plan and a recipe for disaster.

So is the "It sure appears now Scott was “carrying while hammered” a legal definition or your knee jerk reaction to the story. From what they said a toxicology report was NOT produced at any time in the hearing. Personally I have MS and I am not always coordinated when walking at all. NO drugs or drinking ever but would a cop then have the right to shot me if I obeyed the wrong order of 3 to 5 that were yelled at me?

So don't blame fellow freepers for coming to a possible conclusion based on shoddy, confusing orders shouted at a man over a period of a few seconds when they faced him with their guns pointed at him.

Sir this hearing did nothing to make me consider it was other than a bunch of adrenalin pumped cops feeling like SF troops (who they are NOT) when confronting a man based on the reports of Costco employees! The cops were going on nothing other than the poor reports of those employees and decided to execute on those grounds.

Might a taser or pepper spray have left a man alive under those circumstances? Probably but a man died because of some skitzy Dime store employees and some cops up for a little action to wear off some adrenalin.

Back to my story, if I tripped around in a store would I deserve to die too??????

[Ronald_Magnus]

Any reasonable person reading the transcripts that have been posted so far would conclude Scott was high on something. He made the mistake of carrying his weapon in such a condition and therefore set the stage for this tragedy.