Updates on Costco Police Shooting in Nevada

[osan]

What was Erik Scott?

Exactly. WHAT - not WHO.

[Brian4Liberty]

We just passed the one year Anniversary:

The Erik Scott Case, Update 13: A Sad Anniversary

On the morning of July 10, 2010, Erik Scott was shot seven times and killed by three Las Vegas Metro police officers while leaving a Las Vegas Costco store surrounded by other shoppers. Standing at his side as he was shot was his girlfriend, Samantha Sterner. The first officer to shoot Scott, only two seconds after drawing his gun and yelling contradictory commands, William Mosher, had shot two other citizens in the few years he had worked at Metro before killing Scott (one survived). The other two officers, Joshua Stark and Thomas Mendiola, had scant police experience.

This post, Update 13 in our series on the continuing Scott case, is not only a memoriam, but a summary, not only of our coverage to date of the case, but of the public scrutiny focused on Metro since they shot the wrong man, scrutiny that they, to this day, despise. Today is the first anniversary of the shooting of Erik Scott, an anniversary that, unlike most others, is not a cause for celebration and will never be a cause for celebration for the Scott family and for those who knew and loved Erik Scott. But it is our hope that the continuing outrage over Scott’s death and the many beatings, harassments, and deaths of Las Vegas citizens since will be the catalyst for changes that only the most corrupt or uninformed can belittle or ignore.

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archi...scott_case.php

[Brian4Liberty]

did they ever get that tape? where is it?

It appears that Update 8 is what you want to read:

November 10, 2011: Update 8: This update explained the realities of eyewitness accounts and followed the bizarre travels of the Costco security video hard drive across the United States. One of the most inexplicable facets of the Scott case is that there is apparently no video at all. According to Metro, the Costco video was malfunctioning, there is no patrol car video, no police helicopter video, no media video, and no video, not even of the aftermath, shot by the media or citizens. Despite these claims, a substantial amount of data—type unknown to this day—was recovered from a Costco security camera hard drive.

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archi...scott_case.php

[Brian4Liberty]

More updates:

The Erik Scott Case: Update 14: The Officers Speak--Sort Of
The Erik Scott Case, Update 14.2: The Officers Speak--Sort Of (Continued)
The Erik Scott Case, 14.3: The Officers Speak--Sort Of (Concluded)
The Erik Scott Case, Update 15: Metro Pats Itself On The Back

http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archi...scott_case.php

[Anti Federalist]

See new thread on this

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...t-against-cops.

[Brian4Liberty]

See new thread on this

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...t-against-cops.

It appears the case is closed, with no ramifications or remedies.

[Anti Federalist]

It appears the case is closed, with no ramifications or remedies.

Yes.

Yes, it does.

The system closed in around their enforcers, it was all the Mundane's fault, now move along, before I thump yer heads for ya.

[Brian4Liberty]

Was this case a variation of "SWATing" someone? The cashier who initiated this episode did so because she jumped to the conclusion that Erik had been battering his girlfriend. She then alerted store security, who ramped it up a notch and contacted the Police. The end results of this accusation are now history.

[phill4paul]

Was this case a variation of "SWATing" someone? The cashier who initiated this episode did so because she jumped to the conclusion that Erik had been battering his girlfriend. She then alerted store security, who ramped it up a notch and contacted the Police. The end results of this accusation are now history.

Yes. I believe it was.

[Pericles]

Yes. I believe it was.

Agreed - looks like a practice run

[HOLLYWOOD]

Here's a bump that the media is starting to recognize about the POLICE STATE "KILLING MACHINE" of Las Vegas, NV

Startling they have killed 142 Americans

http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-force

[SeanTX]

A couple of years back I saw a story about a Las Vegas cop who had his four "kills" commemorated on his body with tattoos for each one. The police couldn't understand why the public might have a problem with that.

[Anti Federalist]

A couple of years back I saw a story about a Las Vegas cop who had his four "kills" commemorated on his body with tattoos for each one. The police couldn't understand why the public might have a problem with that.

I had a picture of Texas SWAT tank with the same thing on it.

[Brian4Liberty]

It appears that there is a website that has been dedicated to Erik Scott and related issues. Looks like it may be the same guy that had been writing, using a new website.

https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpre...ik-scott-case/

http://erikbscottmemorialblog.blogspot.com/

[Brian4Liberty]

An interesting letter from an eyewitness:

[angelatc]

THanks for the updates. I thought this was all done. Am I wrong?

[squarepusher]

so sad the needless death

[brushfire]

It appears that there is a website that has been dedicated to Erik Scott and related issues. Looks like it may be the same guy that had been writing, using a new website.

https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpre...ik-scott-case/

http://erikbscottmemorialblog.blogspot.com/

THanks for the updates. I thought this was all done. Am I wrong?

Mike McDaniel's blog, as previously posted by Brian above, is really a good blog. I have it bookmarked and I've been going to it for a while now.

I believe there is a pending civil suit against Erik Scott's killers.

[Brian4Liberty]

THanks for the updates. I thought this was all done. Am I wrong?

They had to drop the lawsuit against the LV Metro and the officers in March 2012:
http://erikbscottmemorialblog.blogsp...metro.html?m=1

They filed a new lawsuit against Costco in June 2012:
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpre...-june-08-2012/

[Brian4Liberty]

Erik Scott's father wrote a book based on his son's death:

http://erikbscottmemorialblog.blogsp...s-release.html

LAS VEGAS (March 28, 2013) – The murder of a beloved son, a quest for truth and justice usurped by a broken legal system, and a battle with both grief and a blatant cover-up, led author William B. Scott to create a fictional tale rooted in every parent’s nightmare. The result is The Permit, a compelling techno-thriller novel based on the real-world murder of Erik Scott, who was gunned down by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers in front of a suburban Costco store in July 2010.

“My son, Erik, was murdered, because a BlackBerry in his hand was mistaken for a firearm. That senseless tragedy was magnified by a sloppy, transparent cover-up orchestrated to protect his killers and a Cartel of Corruption that controls Las Vegas,” said William B. Scott, bestselling author and Erik Scott’s father. “It soon became apparent that the Cartel’s enforcers—rogue cops—were no different than dangerous domestic terrorists. In the past, rogue cops were a very small percentage of U.S. police forces. But that changed in recent years. Today, twenty-five-to-thirty percent of some police departments—including Las Vegas Metro—comprise ‘rogue’ or ‘bad’ cops. Every day brings another headline about American citizens being brutalized and killed by those who have sworn to serve and protect.”

[Pericles]

They do it because they can get away with it.

[Brian4Liberty]

Michael Brown bump.

[Anti Federalist]

Michael Brown bump.

“My son, Erik, was murdered, because a BlackBerry in his hand was mistaken for a firearm. That senseless tragedy was magnified by a sloppy, transparent cover-up orchestrated to protect his killers and a Cartel of Corruption that controls Las Vegas,” said William B. Scott, bestselling author and Erik Scott’s father. “It soon became apparent that the Cartel’s enforcers—rogue cops—were no different than dangerous domestic terrorists. In the past, rogue cops were a very small percentage of U.S. police forces. But that changed in recent years. Today, twenty-five-to-thirty percent of some police departments—including Las Vegas Metro—comprise ‘rogue’ or ‘bad’ cops. Every day brings another headline about American citizens being brutalized and killed by those who have sworn to serve and protect.”

I wonder, how this may have turned out, if people in Erik Scott's neighborhood turned out in force, raised hell and maybe burned a few buildings down?

[mad cow]

I wonder, how this may have turned out, if people in Erik Scott's neighborhood turned out in force, raised hell and maybe burned a few buildings down?

Well,hopefully not your house or business.

[Anti Federalist]

Well,hopefully not your house or business.

Yeah, I would hope not. I'd be armed and protecting it.

[Anti Federalist]

He had a gun.

Justified.

Right?

[Brian4Liberty]

I wonder, how this may have turned out, if people in Erik Scott's neighborhood turned out in force, raised hell and maybe burned a few buildings down?

Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

All of these incidents do have a cumulative effect though. Balko and Grigg can cite them. Politicians like Rand and even Huckabee are speaking out about it. Shows that it is a bigger issue than just the Cultural Marxists and leftists trying to push their race politics.

[mad cow]

Yeah, I would hope not. I'd be armed and protecting it.

And if you were away at sea?Then I guess you would just come home to the smoking ruins.

But you could take heart that some important social change might come about for the rioters that torched everything you own in the world,so it's all good.

[SeanTX]

I wonder, how this may have turned out, if people in Erik Scott's neighborhood turned out in force, raised hell and maybe burned a few buildings down?

It seems like peaceful "stay on the sidewalk, or in the free speech zone" -- type protests accomplish absolutely nothing , other than raising some awareness and giving the tax ticks some easy overtime pay, as they stand off to side laughing at it all. And voting and strongly-worded letters of complaint do nothing either.

Some type of physical disruption is necessary to make the powers-that-be pay attention to the grievances of mundanes, even if it's just disrupting traffic flow. Wide-scale non-violent civil disobedience at a minimum.

Angry at the cops for killing someone without justification, like Erik Scott, and want to really do something to bring about change? Then certain things may be fair game -- just leave private property and innocent citizens alone. People say that you can't fight the govt , but they do it in other countries all the time. You just have to be smart about how it's done.

I'm not necessarily advocating doing that by the way, I'm just saying that I think well-mannered protesting isn't going to accomplish anything, we are well beyond that point.

[Brian4Liberty]

CNN fueled riot bump.