1 - I haven’t seen a diagram of where the cops were standing. However, if they were all standing in the same spot, they were screwing up. The best bet would have been to walk up to Scott in the parking lot, with the other two cops spread well apart.
2 - The video of the transcript being played is found on one of the sites we aren’t supposed to link to...I’ll send the link to you privately. The audio is very hard to hear. The conversation and the time line is easily seen in the video. It is the video of the inquest, so the data is what the DA presented.
Metro Police Officer William Mosher, one of three officers who shot Erik Scott, said he is a member of Metro's crisis intervention team and has gone through extra training to deal with situations that might involve people with mental issues.“With the details we had and the fact that he had a weapon, that’s not really the time to talk,” Mosher said.
He also said he only observed Scott’s behavior for about 30 seconds between the time Scott was pointed out to him and shots were fired.
Mosher, who is a Marine, said Scott, a West Point graduate, should have known how to safely surrender a weapon to an officer, but he didn't act in an appropriate way.
The full report is here.