OhKay Dokay! How about we leave the "what ifs" and what happened elsewhere out of this thread and stick to the facts (as they pertain to this shooting) as we know them? Conflating other issues simply serves no purpose here.
Peetza, you keep saying that Scott was pointing his (holstered) firearm at the police. Got any proof of that? Fact is, we don't know. We have conflicting eyewitness testimony. We have the testimony to the officers themselves, which given the circumstances, could be just as conflicting as the other witnesses. Now this doesn't mean the police were not justified to shoot him. I know I wouldn't wait for him to point a gun at me. I probably would not "see" that the gun was still in its holster.
Hell, the autopsy itself was botched. Understandable if the coroner was not a trained forensic pathologist (hint - many aren't, despite what you see on CSI).
You folks should go back and read what Tamara posited:
This whole thing appears to be a CharlieFoxtrot, all the way around.
Peetza, you keep saying that Scott was pointing his (holstered) firearm at the police. Got any proof of that? Fact is, we don't know. We have conflicting eyewitness testimony. We have the testimony to the officers themselves, which given the circumstances, could be just as conflicting as the other witnesses. Now this doesn't mean the police were not justified to shoot him. I know I wouldn't wait for him to point a gun at me. I probably would not "see" that the gun was still in its holster.
Hell, the autopsy itself was botched. Understandable if the coroner was not a trained forensic pathologist (hint - many aren't, despite what you see on CSI).
You folks should go back and read what Tamara posited:
It is not impossible for all four statements to be true.
- The officers were legally justified in the shooting.
- Costco and Las Vegas Metro are, to a greater or lesser extent, civilly liable for the escalation of the situation and subsequent death of Erik Scott.
- Erik Scott screwed up in more than one way and got hisself shot.
- The officers should be, if not fired, busted back to meter maids.
This whole thing appears to be a CharlieFoxtrot, all the way around.