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This billboard is being displayed today at four locations across the Las Vegas Valley.
By Jackie Valley (contact) 
Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010 | 12:06 p.m.
Sun archives
- Police officers found justified in Erik Scott shooting; family plans lawsuit (9-28-10)
- Detective: Erik Scott had pain medicines from several doctors (9-27-10)
- Day 5 blog: Homicide detective returns to witness stand with more evidence (9-27-10)
- Witnesses give conflicting accounts of Costco police shooting (9-25-10)
- Day 4 blog: Witnesses recall fatal police shooting at Costco (9-25-10)
- Shoppers recount police shooting outside Costco (9-24-2010)
- Day 3 blog: Witnesses back officers’ decision to shoot Erik Scott (9-24-2010)
- Officer in Costco shooting says man raised gun, didn't know it was in holster (9-23-2010)
- Day 2 blog: Officer in Costco shooting: ‘He was a deadly threat with that weapon’ (9-23-2010)
- Inquest testimony focuses on Erik Scott’s use of prescription drugs (9-22-10)
Four billboard ads unveiled today around the Las Vegas Valley seek surveillance video — for a $25,000 reward — from the Costco in Summerlin the day Erik Scott was shot by Metro Police.
Family spokeswoman Lisa Mayo-DeRiso said the Scott family is offering the award to anyone who has a "valid, unaltered copy of the 'missing' Costco surveillance data." The footage between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. must include images of Scott's behavior inside the store as well as the shooting in the Costco foyer area involving three Metro Police officers.
During the coroner's inquest, which deemed the shooting of 38-year-old Scott justifiable, the Scott family disputed authorities' claim that video of the incident does not exist.
Costco store employees testified during the inquest in September that the video recorder was not properly working at the time of the shooting.
Scott was killed July 10 at the Costco in Summerlin after authorities say he pointed a gun at an officer, prompting three officers to shoot him. Costco employees had called police to report Scott acting erratically in the store.
After a six-day inquest that involved testimony from more than 50 witnesses, a jury found the three officers justified in shooting Scott, a medical device salesman and West Point graduate.
The billboard ads will be at U.S. 95 near Sunset Road, Tropicana Avenue near Decatur Boulevard, the Interstate 15 off-ramp near U.S. 95 and Rancho Drive, and Interstate 15 near Blue Diamond Road.
Just like the 20 minute gap in the Nixon tapes it doesn't exist, and we wonder why?
The Scott family needs to accept their loss and get on with their lives.
Erik Scott did not deserve to be shot, but his actions created the shooting.
The father needs serious psychological help, he is losing it more and more each day. Have you seen his blog? The whole world is in a conspiracy against his son? Against his girlfriend? Against anyone with a Erik ribbon on their car. Really....? He needs help. Just my 2 cents.
Move on with your lives. His friends and family always boasted as to how great and admirable this West Point /Business Man Erik Scott was. But that day he was on drugs, belligerant with store personnel, and flagrantly violating his ccw license. He bears more responsibility for his death than the cops who pulled the trigger.
If their lawyer talked them into this he is a first class shyster.
I will try and explain what happened to the smallest of minds. (1) Erik was in Costco armed and intoxicated. (2) While Exiting he was told to get down. (3) He did not, his hand went to his waistband and produced an object. (4) The police reaction was to protect themselves. (5)Erik had a carry permit, he knew the rules, law and regulations. He chose not to obey any of those rules. The same results would happen too any of us if we chose the same as Erik. I feel sooo sorry for him and his family. Wheither there are tapes or not, he made a poor decision while under the infulence. If you must blame anyone, blame his so called GIRLFRIEND. She had him in Costco when he told her he was to F**king Intoxicated to be there. She knew it and so did Erik, she chose to put him in that possision, BY NOT LEAVING.
Why can't this family accept the fact that they had a drug addicted son who carried guns to a very public place like costco was a disturbed man. I commend Metro on what they did. Remember public, they were called to Costco because of his violent behavior. What kind of nut case are these people. It must run in the family.Why don't you accept the fact that you failed your son.Where were you all this time he abused RX?
Costco: I would sue their @sses off for the damage to your name.
Nut job father begot a nut job son.
Comment removed by moderator. Language.
Parents are really milking this, what are they looking for, a shot on Oprah so they can make some money back they lost from the lawyers?
Metro is by far the most corrupt police department in the country. I have no respect for them and I hope the video is found and the whole entire department is investigated. This town is horrible, look at the above comments to prove it. Completely uneducated and just a bunch of outright criminals. This town is pathetic.
I hope the family is able to uncover tapes. The people who testified about the "broken" surveillance system were low level employees who simply were not credible.
I hope this nightmare is eventually eased a bit for the Scott family, with a federal indictment, conviction, and imprisonment of Officer Mosher and his confederates who helped prepare the dog and pony show presented by the DA's staff. If Mosher is left on the streets, it's only a matter of time before he kills again, while Metro and its casino-owner bosses snooze. I guess the casino bosses still haven't figured out that having an out-of-control, killer police department is bad for tourism. More here:
http://www.thebeargrowls.com/?p=768
Chunky says:
Maybe the Scott family should have invested $25,000, plus billboards a few years back to help their son with his prescription drug addiction, paranoia and lying about his armed services experience among other things.
The Scott's are trying to turn the bad hard drive into yet another far fetched conspiracy.
Erik Scott had every opportunity that day to change the course of events and he couldn't even get that right! The cops had every reason and no choice but to shoot and kill their son. Pure denial! The hard drive failure was well documented prior to the event. Pure denial!
That's what Chunky thinks!
Chunky - Hard drives frankly dont fail that often. I have a degree in computer science and have worked on computers for 20+ years. I am not from Nevada.
The cops had no reason to fire on him as its 100% legal to carry a fire arm in this state, maybe metro should be acquainted with the laws as well as yourself.
I also like how you cop out and blame prescription medication like that some how justifies someone being murdered.
However I am not surprised by your lack of intelligence, everyone in the country knows Nevada is by far the stupidest State in this country.
What Chunky Thinks is flat wrong and ignorant.
For all the conspiracy lovers out there, I don't know how you lead an everyday life being so paranoid. I've been on 2 calls in the past month where the computerized video didn't work and another where it wasn't recording because the manager didn't even know how to work the system.
Gohugatree - Yea, sure, keep telling yourself that. Its no surprise no officer has ever been indicted, I guess this is just conspiracy as well? And fyi just because something is a conspiracy doesn't make it false.
@Gohugatree
Yep, I agree with you on that. I work in IT and I see alot of this as well.
One thing that bothers me however is how the evidence was handled by Metro.
They left the computer there and allowed Costco's 3rd party vendor "Vegas Valley Locking Systems" to try to recover data from the hard drive before it was taken into custody.
Doesn't that seem a bit bizarre to you? I feel that their explanation is plausible for why there is no video, but not excusable because the evidence wasn't handled properly in my opinion.
What mitzy17 thinks is Chunky is annoying for talking in the 3rd person.
As soon as I see the name Chunky I skip your comments because I find them to be annoying lol. So THERE! jajajaja.
Mitzy what type of IT work do you do? Gohugatree is just another useless corrupt cop... No surprise he defends other corrupt cops..
And FYI Metro is a corrupt police force this isnt debatable its factual.
@theserfattack,
I think you need to read up on the laws before you go calling people out on them. It is not legal to carry a firearm if you are under the influence of a controlled substance. Even if you have a prescription, you are committing a crime if you are under the influence and carrying a concealed firearm. If you think that it is ok to have lethal amounts of opiates in your system and carry a gun, then you should be right at home in the dumbest state in the nation.
Here is the NRS stating such:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Division/Lega...
I dont need to read up on anything. No way cops could have known that at the time could they?
I hate this place and Im leaving, I wouldnt stay in this place if you paid me. Im not from here and dont want anything to do with this place.
Its filled with people like you... Who justify killing a veteran by some rookie small town cops...
I have no respect for you or anyone else in this town, not the cops, not anything. :) So you go read your link i frankly dont even care.
Even if he was on drugs, last I checked thats not a mandatory death sentence...
7 bullets were fired, 4 in the back, what happened to accurate shooters? They have 45.acp I thought cops consider that "the man stopper" but each officer had to fire 2 bullets on average? Right...
Can you say rookie over reaction? They are were rookies....
You take your argument in another direction when you are wrong. Your statements are based on emotion as much as fact. Nobody wanted Erik Scott to be killed that day. NOBODY. But saying his actions aren't the reason why his is dead is just idiotic. Blindly stating that he had no fault is the same as blindly saying the police are never at fault. It reminds me of the political crap that has become so polarized. If you want to complain about a Metro case, complain about Trevon Cole. That one is complete BS. But everyone wants to rant about the white Army vet shopping in Summerlin. I just don't get it.
What actions justified erik being killed again? Yea you dont know because the tape was destroyed. There is conflicting reports on both sides.
And Im not wrong, the police who killed this man were wrong. They were rookies plain and simple.
Ill give a West Point Graduate the benefit of the doubt over Metro Las Vegas police officers any day of the week, month, or year.
Its a bit fairy tale to say that Erik would have went to a costco just to shoot it out with police, it makes no sense.
And yea obviously the cops wanted him dead because they shot 7 times with 45's... 7 times! Thats at least 2 per officer...
No, you were wrong. You said he was 100% legal in carrying his gun that day. The NRS above says you were wrong. Does the NRS state it is legal to carry if the police know or don't know you are under the influence? You were wrong plain and simple, don't spin it further than that.
Sorry but your wrong, please tell me how the officers who shot him knew he was on prescription medication? PLEASE inform us all..
Also in that law does it state that the person should be killed if carrying under the influence?
Last I checked everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Did Erik get to have his court date?
Nothing in this story is justification for killing Erik, nothing. Then to have all the videos mysteriously disappear or not be recorded.
Right...
Well that was an easy debate to win, anyone else wish to justify killing a veteran?
Then after all this suddenly henderson start pulling over an issuing tickets to the family members for moving violations?
The hard drive was sent to Los Angeles for forensics? And right from the start they announced it could be glitchy? Thats impossible for them to know.
I have just found what I am doing for the next few months. I wonder how corrupt metro is and im going to put it to the test with cameras attached to my vehicle.
Lets see how youtube and the rest of the country feel about this small town cop routine.
Im going to single handily clean up this corrupt fest before leaving. This has gone on way to long.
Its not acceptable for Las Vegas cops to break the law because they live in a "mob city". Most of them probably dont even know the law.
They should get evidence of a work order made from Costco in reference to the "damaged" Intellex system with their service provider for their equipment, which if I am not mistaken is 100% of the time Sensormatic.
Businesses put way to much money into their camera systems to just let it be broke, not likely what so ever. I bet if someone fell in the store that day they would of had video.
The 911 tapes conclusively show that Officer Mosher ordered Scott to drop his weapon prior to ordering him ordering him to the ground and based on the timing of the encounter and the testimony of Mosher's two fellow officers, it is high improbable that Scott had a weapon in his hand at the time Mosher told Scott to "drop it". Anyone watching the actual inquest could see that the Costco employees contradicted one another left and right. The Costco employee that had the encounter with Scott and testified that the video system was broken apparently had an outstanding criminal warrant for his arrest from Alaska. Naturally, the DA failed to mention it at the inquest.
The DA's selectively introduced Scott's prescriptions for back pain, but provided only partial information--which is one of the reasons why the inquest system is viewed as a joke by virtually everyone outside of Metro and its' union.
I also find it strange--disturbing even---that some Metro supporters find fault with the parents for trying to get a copy of the videotape of the events that led to their son's death. The video is the only objective piece of evidence out there.
You know what would solve this, mandatory video cameras on all cops cars and person. They must at all times wear a video camera on their persons and none of this would happen..
Cops cant be trusted to tell the truth and there are plenty of videos on youtube that prove this.
So the solution, tag them with GPS and cameras. They are police officers they should not have any privacy while on duty and cases can not be left up to the cops word any longer nor citizens for that matter.
Mandatory Video on all cops persons!
Wish I had those tapes. 25k in my pocket, sweet.
Hear what a judge has to say about our Inquest Process:
http://stevewark.podbean.com/2010/10/28/...
Good link thedefender. This city is filled with corruption and its time they go to Prison for their actions. This small time cop routine is over. I dont care who they think they know or how things have run in the past, thats done.
TheSerfAttack-
2 of the officer's are Veterans as well. So if you are going to take the side of a Veteran which Veteran is it? The one who never actually served overseas or the two that did?
Also the officer's don't need to know if he was high or not, it's still breaking the law if you carry a weapon while under the influence. If I speed and a cop doesn't stop me it doesn't mean I didn't just break the law. You are right that breaking the law is not immediately punishable by death but reaching for anything while 3 cops have guns pointed at you is.
But just so you don't think I'm a cop lover, I think the Trevon Cole case was murder. But he's black and not the poster child most are trying to make Mr. Scott out to be.
Nevada is last in citizens with bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, purchasing nonfiction books, and intelligence. My hometown is number 1 baby, Boston, Ma. The example of this disparity is the lack of critical thinking skills in many of the comments above. Why are Nevadans so willing to open their mouths and let their lack of humanity, civility, empathy, and education show over and over. I cannot wait to jump ship with the rest of you, came here for family-the nastiness of people's attitudes, the lack of knowledge, wisdom, understanding-unfathomable
TheSerf, spare us your pity. Just leave. You said you were leaving so do so. We will help you pack. You DO need to read up on the laws. You especially need to read the CCW card. You are way off base. And I can tell by your vague "computer science" comment that you are absolutely full of it! And enough of the "killing a veteran" nonsense. I don't care if he once served this country or not. This idiot put people's lives at risk by being intoxicated and carrying a gun. I don't care if the police knew he was intoxicated or not. What they do know is he was told to get down with his hands up and instead he reached. OBEY THE COMMAND. How hard is that? And you REALLY just suggested cops wearing cameras on their body? Did you just throw that in there because you made the comment about cameras in the car and you knew it didn't make sense? You keep trying to say you are winning every debate on here but you are so far off base it is pathetic. You are a conspiracy theorist just as Scott's father. And who cares if family members are being pulled over? Henderson cops pull over people ALL THE TIME.
Scott's family is trying for money from somewhere. Do they actually think that a tape will produce? And if it does do they REALLY think it would be considered evidence. Like was mentioned previous, Erik's dad is a complete nut case. Read the blog mentioned.
Plain and simple, if you think the justice system and police are corrupt them leave the city. There are too many people here to begin with so losing some of you won't hurt one bit. It will open up more jobs for people who like this city and respect it.
Mesheba, who cares about Boston? You can leave too. No one is forcing you to be here. You need help packing or moving? I have some people that will help escort you out. You want to get into discussions about education? Do you even have one? "Jump ship" please. It's funny that someone from the East Coast and Boston would be talking about nasty attitudes.
Do you even realize what happened in this Erik Scott case? Do you understand why so many people are jumping all over this article. They are tired of hearing about this crap. Bury the guy and let him rest in peace. But that can't seem to happen. His parents keep pulling nonsense like this. People are sick of it. People from all over the country with all levels of education.
Dashboard cameras with audio should be in every Metro patrol vehicle.
Professional police officers actually welcome them, because they clear the officer on many of the bogus complaints lodged by those they encounter. If the officer does something right, it's on camera. Same way if the officer does something wrong.
They also save taxpayers money. Everyone's behavior improves on camera. If the millions of dollars that we, the taxpayers, have paid out to settle excessive force and officer abuse cases against Metro in the last four years had been spent on onboard cameras, there could be a camera in every car in their fleet, and the payouts probably would have been cut in half.
With advanced technology, dash cams are far less expensive now. Notwithstanding the coroner's inquest, the Scott case is going to cost us taxpayers millions of dollars. Cameras, if the Metro officers are telling the truth and their version was backed up by cameras would go a long way to reducing that upcoming verdict/settlement, and also give the family some closure.
Yes, cops should wear cameras on their body, absolutely.
I dont have to read up on any laws in this city because no one follows them anyhow.
None of you made a point, you only tried to justify killing a veteran. Its not that hard to understand.
And please do keep telling people to leave, have you checked the uhaul stats lately? People are leaving so good luck with your tourist economy. Just remember 1 person can inflict massive negativity on any given product. This city upset a lot of people who are now leaving and will only talk bad about this place.
Why would I want a stranger to help me pack or were you just trying to funny?
Im glad you consider people nutcases and conspiracy theorists, thats YOUR opinion nothing more.
Oh really im not an IT guy? Which website that I own an operate would you like to see? How about my degree in Computer Science, would you want to see that? I will gladly provide it being as most people here have never seen one.
Typical Las Vegan response, no actual data in that long winded response of yours.
The law states all persons are innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. On top of that this place isnt exactly known for following the law so spare me your attack on my character.
I am whatever you say I am. Frankly I wouldnt care if this whole entire city hated me, id welcome it. And until I leave I will be the most hateful and rude person possible to everyone i meet, and thats my right. :)
Oh and one more thing, thanks for making this the number one commented article on this website today, should help get the word out about the billboards. Typical Vegans, playing checkers while the rest of us are playing Chess. Thanks again for the added publicity on the article, only had 1 comment this morning. :)
How do we know that the 3 cops didn't have drug problems?
Yea maybe mandatory blood drug testing for all cops in this town should be implemented. I wonder how many of them are clean? Id REALLY enjoy seeing those results. I also wonder how many of them drink on the job...
Serf, you math is as bad as your flawed logic and paranoia.
Police officer's are all randomly drug tested. We may not know if the officer's in question were on drugs that day or not but we sure the heck know that Mr. Scott was. Maybe everyone with a CCW should be randomly drug tested and if they come back positive they not only lose thier CCW but all their guns.
Oh and The SerfAttack you never answered the question with regards to the officer's being Veterans. Oh that's right you only debate selectively.
For 25k, someone may roll, and in this economy, I'm guessing they will. Metro had better hope that they don't, because that will be beyond HUGE! Even if they do not, it is going to end up like the situation that happened a while back where a Metro Office creamed a citizen traveling over 100 MPH, and tried to say he was drunk. We later found out he was not drunk, and it was the Officer's fault. Sad all the way around, but seriously, the FBI, or another non-affiliated agency really needs to start investigating, if they are not already.
Sad, sad, sad, that the family is not in the healing mode yet...
This case is long over. Hopped up paranoid drug addict reaches for gun in presence of police when not instructed to. Hands up, lie on the ground and he's alive. Erik Scott is dead because of Erik Scott.
The fat lady has sung.
Really isn't it about time the Scotts accept the fact that their son caused his own death and move on.. I hope I get to sit on any civil trail as they would get nothing and have to pay all court cost in their useless lawsuits..get over it and move on...The cops did their job and did it well.
The Scott Family should be admired for their persistence in their attempt to find closure.
Many here would argue that the inquest findings were inconclusive.
Fortunately the family has the means and staying power to clear their son's name.
@x-jailer, Were you on staff when Metro falsely imprisoned Joshua Donizetti resulting in yet another civil rights violation by Metro that we the taxpayers are left footing the bill.
And exactly how can lethal levels of opiates not be lethal? The last two people killed by Metro had "lethal" levels of narcotics in their systems. Oddly enough it wasn't the drugs, but the lethal level of bullet wounds that did the trick.
Metro did not handle this properly and professionaly, the civil trial will bring out the truth starting with the person that called the police to the store, making metro believe their was a crisis going on.
I'm sure the Scotts will be voting for Crazy Sharron Angle.
The bottom line is that one of the officers ordered Scott to drop his weapon when the weapon was still holstered in his waistband. The DA has publicly stated that he thinks that the inquest process opens Metro up to civil liability. He basically admitting that he thinks the DA's role in the inquest is is to protect Metro from civil suits, not find out the truth. And that's exactly what happened in the Scott case.
Do you remember hearing any testimony presented that Scot wasn't addicted to pain killers at all, but needed extraordinarily high levels of pain killers because of a liver enzyme deficiency? Of course not, because the DA didn't introduce it.
Does anyone remember the DA following up on the testimony from the Costco employees stating that Scott eyes were bloodshot, when a picture of Scott taken inside the store that day showed him smiling and without bloodshot eyes? Of course not.
Does anyone remember the DA following up on the detailed testimony from Shai Lierley who testified Officer Mosher approached Scott from behind and tapped him on the shoulder, while Scott brushed Mosher's hand aside, while Mosher testified he never touched Scott?
Anyone that actually took the time to watch the inquest should be asking the same questions that Scott's family is asking.
@TheSerfAttack--While I applaud the idea of mandatory drug testing of Metro, I am pretty positive it would show nothing more than prescribed medications present. And, remember, the use of prescribed medications aren't the public's business and have no bearing on the results of an inquest. Unless of course we are talking about the victim. Then, as David Roger showed us, that type of personal information is fair game.
I think perhaps Mr. Roger has stepped on the scales of justice as he lifted off her blindfold to give her a peek.
I believe that, as Libslapper wrote, "A good majority of cops are honest and hard working individuals." The same can be said for the population as a whole. Does that mean we stop prosecuting the dishonest, violent criminals among us? No, it does not.
How can the "honest hard working" members of Metro turn a blind eye to the corruption around them. All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
These good men have been silent for too long. Show true courage. Stand up and demand that Metro purge itself, at every opportunity, of the monsters hiding in plain site among its ranks.
How about all the leading questions asked by the DA. They were so misleading the DA should have answered them himself.
The DA has said that if it appeared an officers actions were criminal he would file charges regardless of the Coroner's Inquest outcome. Why have charges NOT been filed against Yant in the Cole case?
For anyone interested in a judge's viewpoint regarding our inquest process; and more. Don't miss this:
http://stevewark.podbean.com/2010/10/28/...
@ johnmanrules, how about actually reading NRS 202.257 1. instead of just stating what you hope is says, like a typical cop?
It is not unlawful, per se, to have a firearm while under the influence of a controlled substance. A person must be under the influence "to a degree which renders him or her incapable of safely exercising actual physical control of a firearm."
There was no determination that Erik Scott was incapable of such safe exercising actual physical control, so stop trotting out that cannard that he was committing a crime by carrying. You, as a cop, do not get to determine guilt.
And, just so you know (and it is relevant) the responding officers had no idea he was under the influence of a controlled substance. They thought, based on the dispatcher's comments that he was mentally ill and acted accordingly.
Perhaps the Scott family was sleeping during the inquest when it was determined that the store's camera system hard drive had not been working for days before the shooting and a service request had been made. I'm sure it's hard to accept that your son had a mental disorder and that led to his death. You are only creating more hate and discontent. It's time to move on.
This case reminds me of Dave Chappelle stand up, if you have seen it, you will understand..."just sprinkle some crack on 'em Johnson and lets get going"...."open and shut case Johnson!"
I love how if you have the nerve to question officers actions that peoples come back is that next time you are in trouble don't call them. Real mature. Are we in fourth grade? And can you please explain why it is ok to pick apart the deceased prescription drugs, but the argument for not drug testing the officers involved is because they will find prescription drugs? seriously?
For WillisDicfitcha,
We will probably never have that explanation because it would lend credibility to the Scott's side. Mr. Scott get gets drug tested, after being shot, but Metro does not get drug tested after shooting Mr. Scott. It is to my understanding that if you slip on the floor while working at McDonald's, and attempt to collect, you get a drug test. Apparently, this is not the case with Metro. How this does not interest anyone, I cannot explain.
Hopefully, we can get clarification in the hearing.
I can guarantee you that IF Erik Scott had pulled his weapon and shot officer Mosher that the video would have been working just fine and would have been shown to the jury!
OMG, this deranged father needs to give it a rest. It's clear to see that the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Eric Scott was not the poster child he's pictures would have you believe him to be. Reminds me of Scott Peterson - he looked like the poster child for the 'boy next door' too.... and we see what a nut case he is.
Whenever I hear that Eric Scott, or anybody else has lethal, or potentially lethal levels of morphine or hydrocodine, it angers me. It is done so that then it can be claimed that they were illegally packing their legal guns, that they have CWP's for, because if you believe the line of reasoning put forth Eric was both addicted and under the influence of his legally prescribed pain medications. I was permanently crippled up by a mining accident in 1991, and I have had a diagnosis of MS since 2003. I am in 24-hour pain at a fairly high level, the pain medications I constantly have to take,along with muscle relaxants, and anti-anziety meds are given and taken at a level that is potentially lethal---, but not lethal or even intoxicating to someone at my level of pain; and not to someone used to my dosages. Yet I am not ever under the influence of my meds, nor do I get intoxicated by my dosages. I have a CWP and pack my guns into my local Costco, WalMart, etc. I do not believe Scott was addicted or under the influence the morning he was murdered. The effect of his meds may explain why he was not able to better react in the four seconds between Butterbean's first shouted demands and the ensuing two 45's to the chest, then the four 40's into his back after he went down.The fact that Costco has no videos at all backing up their phony claims about Scott to 911 that ultimately caused his murder to me is proof of a huge Costco cover-up. I think a lot will come out when depositions start getting taken. It was a murder, I don't think Scott was on any more lethal dosage of anything than I,who takes similar kinds and quantities of very similar meds; and I do not believe he was intoxicated or under the influence when he was gunned down by cops thinking they had a gun-waving nutcase. Shame on Costco!
Some people are just afraid of good questions, and attack those with the temerity to pose them. The attackers have a simplistic formula by which they tidily try to explain the world to themselves, and will let the exploiters and the jackboots out there rape and pillage, before they ever pull their fingers out of their ears and stop chanting "La la la la la, I can't hear you."
Excellent job today, TheSerfAttack, and others also fighting the good fight. I do beg you to lay off the Vegas-bashing, a bit. What you say is true, but some of us are here for the long haul, and are hoping Vegas is at it's nadir, with "up" as the only direction we can go. ;)
By the way: it came out in court that Officer Mosher *simultaneously* gave CONFLICTING commands to Scott -- he both ordered him to drop the gun, AND to get down with his hands where they could be seen. Mosher denied this in court, but the 911 tapes proved it so. Scott never had a chance.
And while we're at it, I recommend that all cops involved in firing their weapons be blood tested for *steroids,* one of the most notorious abuses behind the blue wall. That and amphetamines. Cop apologists, EAT IT. The honest cops out there agree with me, not you enablers in denial.
Why did the public adminstrators office break into Erik and his gfs apartment within a few hours of killing him with no warrant and after his gf refused them permission? Seriously what logical reason? Their apartment had nothing to do with the event at Costco. And you do so while the gf is detained in the Costco for 4 hours or so? On top of that you change the locks so she can't even get into her own home on the very day you kill her bf in front of her? If any of you think im making this up there is a recorded voicemail on youtube left by the public administrators office for Eriks brother telling him he is going to break in. Looking for what? Now the gf is pulled over and ticketed 3 times in the last 3 weeks? Intimidation? Coincidence? This is sickening. Way to flex your muscles Metro.
Once I stopped laughning I found the stupidity of this story amazing. Does the Scott family think that there will be a harddrive found in the garbage behind the store? Maybe someone will have a page full of 1 and 0's they can build the image from.
I guess the woman from the Secret Service was lying about she found ? Why is it so hard for the Scotts to believe that there was a problem with the hard drive? They look like complete fools with such stupidity. Look at all the witnesses that came forward with the last series of billboards they put up.
Billboards are part of strategy to extort settlement from Costco & city of LV. Have no basis in reality.
lvstrip, a day after Scotts murder the recorder actually worked, so the Costco employees lied that it was broken.
Buzzbomb you are a genius! How dare the family offer reward money for evidence that mysteriously didn't work until 4 hours after the shooting, yet the cameras just beyond where the shooting took place that show people scrambling worked absolutely fine and recorded perfectly fine.
Lvstrip you know whats funny is gullible people like yourself that eat up everything thats fed to them. Whats also funny is the fact that the police left the video equipment at costco after the shooting instead of confiscating them. The chain of custody was a joke.