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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: IrishCatholic
Really? Based on....what? What liability would Costco face? Why would they conspire? Why would a loss prevention guy making, what, less than $15 an hour lie? What possible civil liability would they face?

OK, you had me for a while with the "let the facts come out" stuff, but no longer.

You can't possibly be this naive.

241 posted on 09/24/2010 1:31:12 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: SnakeDoctor
I don't see why they shot him when he was surrounded by other shoppers. The witnesses that were around him didn't either.

Again, did you read the early articles with witness statements?

242 posted on 09/24/2010 1:31:29 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: kiryandil; SnakeDoctor
You the guy that called Erik Scott a "cockroach" over on the LV news boards last month?

Is that true, SD?

If so, why? Why was he a "cockroach"?

243 posted on 09/24/2010 1:32:33 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: smokingfrog
Hmmm...Wonder if he had been taking these for a while? I know that therapeutic levels of morphine may rise over time if he was taking it for chronic pain but too that level? Don't know about the other drugs.

I assume that his parents will have a blood sample submitted by a private lab.

244 posted on 09/24/2010 1:32:36 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: S.O.S121.500

Mine also. They murdered the poor guy in cold blood. Now they are covering it up.


245 posted on 09/24/2010 1:34:50 PM PDT by sport
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To: DJ MacWoW
But not the early ones. The early articles had all kinds of statements from witnesses calling the police liars.

Yeah, Metro needed the extra time to get their ducks in a row after the initial poop hit the fan.

Looks like they cleaned things up nicely - heck, they've even got a contingent of apologists here on FR singing Hosannahs for The Killer Stay-Puft DonutBoy.

246 posted on 09/24/2010 1:35:26 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: cynwoody

Excellent post.


247 posted on 09/24/2010 1:36:35 PM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (If exercising the right to free speech invites violence, then girls in short skirts invite rape.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Do you know of your own personal knowledge that he was on pain killing drugs?


248 posted on 09/24/2010 1:37:11 PM PDT by sport
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To: kiryandil

I don’t know who Horiuchi is, don’t care, and don’t respond to “requests for condemnation”.

I’m not really interested in carrying on a conversation with you. There’s gotta be a Free Mumia rally going on somewhere ... after all, all he did was rid the world of one more power-hungry “jackboot”. Pound sand.

SnakeDoc


249 posted on 09/24/2010 1:38:45 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: kiryandil

Yup. And go back and read the first article. Police statements are at odds with current testimony. You wouldn’t think the keystone kops could murder a West Point grad and top salesman of medical equipment and get away with it......but they just might.


250 posted on 09/24/2010 1:38:59 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: skeeter
I don't think SD was the guy, but his attitude towards "civilians" seems to be similar, which is why I asked, tongue in cheek.

Yes, there was a guy on the LV boards that called Erik Scott a "cockroach". The post FINALLY got yanked, but not before Erik's dad signed on to post his disappointment to the jerk.

251 posted on 09/24/2010 1:39:03 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

No.

SnakeDoc


252 posted on 09/24/2010 1:39:56 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: SnakeDoctor
There’s gotta be a Free Mumia rally going on somewhere ... after all, all he did was rid the world of one more power-hungry “jackboot”. Pound sand.

I want to go to the Fry Mumia rally.

Someone who doesn't know who Lon Horiuchi is shouldn't be commenting on jackboot law enforcement. You've lost all credibility.

I'll just be pointing out to your future opponents that you claim that you "don’t know who Horiuchi is".

That'll settle it for them.

253 posted on 09/24/2010 1:42:27 PM PDT by kiryandil
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To: kiryandil

Couldn’t care less.

SnakeDoc


254 posted on 09/24/2010 1:43:44 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow." -- Teddy Roosevelt)
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To: texmexis best

They could not find any drugs on him. He had a permit for the gun. They could not plant eiher drugs or a gun on him. So, they did the next best thing, they “discovered” drugs in his system.


255 posted on 09/24/2010 1:44:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: kiryandil; Moonman62
"The officer testified that he has a holster just like it, and that he knows the gun can be fired while it's in the holster."

Actually that "fact" is irrelevant as the officer testified that he didn't know that the gun was in a holster.

256 posted on 09/24/2010 1:45:31 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: kiryandil

Not naive at all. But not blinded by my own bigotry either.
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
John Adams


257 posted on 09/24/2010 1:46:03 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: sport

I was waiting for that too since Costco said he behaved “erratically” and the cops repeated it but the eyewitnesses said no he wasn’t.


258 posted on 09/24/2010 1:47:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Snakedoctor “im be know whitedevil solder man canna make fire stick go boom plenny no madder baggy. Jess shootum dad firs an ebryting be cook an curry!


259 posted on 09/24/2010 1:47:36 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Lurker
SnakeDoctor: "I don’t know who Horiuchi is, don’t care"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2595552/posts?page=249#249

LOL! He might as well have said "I don't know who Lavrenti Beria is, don't care. Stalin's the man for me!"

260 posted on 09/24/2010 1:48:37 PM PDT by kiryandil
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