Also, the Costco employee had to point Scott out to the cop. Scott walked past Mosher, and Mosher didn’t know he was the suspect. The Costco employee pointed him out.
Want to explain how Mosher knew Scott was a deadly threat, even though he didn’t know it seconds earlier when Scott walked past him?
Why, yes, I DID write that.
I'm not sure how you managed to twist that statement into the strawman "Some here claim that if no round was chambered, the cops should have known that before they fired."
Let me explain it to you. See, YOU or SOMEONE ELSE pretending that Erik Scott's gun had a round in the chamber has NOTHING to do with the police.
The police got to assume that there WAS a round in the chamber.
After the fact, which is where the pretending is at, NO ONE, including the police, are allowed to get away with it.
For example, if Officer Mosher found out that there wasn't a round chambered, and he had a shred of decency or integrity, he wouldn't go in front of an inquest and start telling fantastic stories about he could fire a gun through a holster just like Erik's.
He'd man up, and say, "Gosh, there wasn't a round in the chamber of Erik's gun. I guess I must have misread his intentions in the confusion."
But that would open Metro to BOATLOADS of liability, so it's easier to put the smear on the "drug-crazed snap-shoot-through-the-holster dead guy.