“from day one though, the fact that cops were there, and in such force over one guy is mindbogglin...”
Worth repeating. A lot of response for a guy carrying concealed and not acting like a threat. The tape played at the inquest has the Costco employee talking about about how someone was knifed earlier and they take this sort of thing very seriously - again, painting Scott as a homicidal maniac. He later tries to back it down, but I think there will be a valid civil case to bring against him.
no doubt he hoped to see scott froggmarched, but he set the events in motion, and then when he really shouldve screamed 'OH S#!t' once the evac happened...instead he took the cowardly way out and weakly tried to call off the rabid dogs...
the day after, i heard zero witnesses state that scott was acting anything more than annoyed...supposedly the other employee even helped him load the stuff into his cart...hardly a wild eyed and threatening presence in the store...
but you cant un-ring a bell, so he paid the price for our police state of security, hopefully it awakened some sheep......