Lucille
09-23-2010, 09:45 PM
Erik Scott: Medical Misdirection (http://erikbscottmemorialblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/erik-scott-medical-misdirection.html)
This “Coroner’s Cop-Clearing Circus” is billed as an informal “fact-finding” exercise, but facts will be in short supply. Instead, this abomination of justice has only two objectives: To destroy Erik Scott’s reputation, and to exonerate the three Metro officers who gunned down Erik in a crowd of approximately 50 people, shooting him seven times. At least five of those rounds were fired into Erik’s back, after he was on the ground, convulsing, bleeding profusely, fighting for air, and dying a painful, needless death. His heart and lungs had been destroyed by hollow-point bullets that slammed into his body at high velocity, then mushroomed, ripping his insides to shreds.
Metro officers and the DA will attempt to shift the jury’s and TV audience’s attention far away from the facts of Erik’s horrific, senseless killing. First, we’ll hear that the Costco surveillance video recordings (or the store’s “critical cameras,” if we’re to believe Sheriff Gillespie’s latest comments) were “unusable,” thanks to a mysterious hard-disk “glitch.” Don’t believe it. I don’t. Any digital security-video system deployed by a $73-billion-per-year corporation that ranks Number 25 on the Fortune 500 list will have multiple hard-disk backups onsite. Further, the video will be streamed offsite to a remote storage location. I guarantee there’s an unadulterated copy of that video somewhere, but Metro will not allow it to be seen by the family, our attorney, Ross Goodman, or Las Vegas citizens.
If unaltered video were to be shown at the Cop-Clearing Circus, it would show that Erik was not “acting erratically” inside Costco; was not brandishing a weapon; did not have any kind of altercation with a store employee; and never raised his voice or did anything untoward. He sent a slew of text messages and e-mails, while shopping with his girlfriend—focused activity hardly compatible with someone acting weird or “on drugs,” as claimed. The original video will show Erik calmly exited the store with other customers, but was immediately confronted by three Metro cops, all shouting different, conflicting commands. It will show that one of the rookies already had his weapon drawn and was extremely agitated, tense and “amped up,” a description used by several eyewitnesses.
Undoctored video will confirm that Erik tried to comply with one of those three different, shouted orders, but was immediately shot in the chest. Then the other two cops unloaded, probably due to a “sympathetic fire” syndrome common among Metro’s quick-to-shoot cops. Erik was shot and killed within 3-10 seconds. In short, the video will prove Erik did absolutely nothing that should have triggered such a brutal response. [...]
h/t Vox Popoli (http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/09/erik-scott-memorial-blog.html):
Hamilton: 9/23/10 11:28 AM:
They have digital video backed up on-site and off-site, just as Mr. Scott assumes. Of this I am 100% sure, since it is critical to the service I provide for the company.
This “Coroner’s Cop-Clearing Circus” is billed as an informal “fact-finding” exercise, but facts will be in short supply. Instead, this abomination of justice has only two objectives: To destroy Erik Scott’s reputation, and to exonerate the three Metro officers who gunned down Erik in a crowd of approximately 50 people, shooting him seven times. At least five of those rounds were fired into Erik’s back, after he was on the ground, convulsing, bleeding profusely, fighting for air, and dying a painful, needless death. His heart and lungs had been destroyed by hollow-point bullets that slammed into his body at high velocity, then mushroomed, ripping his insides to shreds.
Metro officers and the DA will attempt to shift the jury’s and TV audience’s attention far away from the facts of Erik’s horrific, senseless killing. First, we’ll hear that the Costco surveillance video recordings (or the store’s “critical cameras,” if we’re to believe Sheriff Gillespie’s latest comments) were “unusable,” thanks to a mysterious hard-disk “glitch.” Don’t believe it. I don’t. Any digital security-video system deployed by a $73-billion-per-year corporation that ranks Number 25 on the Fortune 500 list will have multiple hard-disk backups onsite. Further, the video will be streamed offsite to a remote storage location. I guarantee there’s an unadulterated copy of that video somewhere, but Metro will not allow it to be seen by the family, our attorney, Ross Goodman, or Las Vegas citizens.
If unaltered video were to be shown at the Cop-Clearing Circus, it would show that Erik was not “acting erratically” inside Costco; was not brandishing a weapon; did not have any kind of altercation with a store employee; and never raised his voice or did anything untoward. He sent a slew of text messages and e-mails, while shopping with his girlfriend—focused activity hardly compatible with someone acting weird or “on drugs,” as claimed. The original video will show Erik calmly exited the store with other customers, but was immediately confronted by three Metro cops, all shouting different, conflicting commands. It will show that one of the rookies already had his weapon drawn and was extremely agitated, tense and “amped up,” a description used by several eyewitnesses.
Undoctored video will confirm that Erik tried to comply with one of those three different, shouted orders, but was immediately shot in the chest. Then the other two cops unloaded, probably due to a “sympathetic fire” syndrome common among Metro’s quick-to-shoot cops. Erik was shot and killed within 3-10 seconds. In short, the video will prove Erik did absolutely nothing that should have triggered such a brutal response. [...]
h/t Vox Popoli (http://voxday.blogspot.com/2010/09/erik-scott-memorial-blog.html):
Hamilton: 9/23/10 11:28 AM:
They have digital video backed up on-site and off-site, just as Mr. Scott assumes. Of this I am 100% sure, since it is critical to the service I provide for the company.