The Eric Scott case has gone to the jury and I am willing to bet that a verdict will be reached within 2 hours, even if they break for dinner. And they will return a verdict as the cops were justified in their actions and that probably be the correct verdict.
But that still doesn't excuse the poor performance by the cops that day- they had a plan that didn't work, they touched Scott when he was coming out when they shouldn't have, the cops were overly aggressive when they didn't have to be and they shot Scott after he had dropped the holstered gun.
The Scott family will sue and and hit the lottery with an out of court settlement and the taxpayers will have to pay millions for this lawsuit and Trevon Cole's lawsuit. Meanwhile, the most of the folks at Metro will continue to do what they need to do. Lock up bad guys and put down threats to the public. God bless them for the hard work they do, but please, ladies and gentlemen (and mostly gentlemen- when was the last time a female officer shot and killed a thug?) use some commonsense.
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"please, ladies and gentlemen (and mostly gentlemen- when was the last time a female officer shot and killed a thug?)"
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I for one am fed up with all the killings by Police in this town. My heart goes out to the Scott family. They are on a long road to healing. I have nothing to say to the men who killed Eric other than, how do you sleep at night knowing you took a life?
ReplyDeleteI believe the Costco employees made the incident out to be more than it was therefore getting the police worked up before they got there. I agree the police are gun happy but I think Costco is more responsible because of the exaggeration of the situation........
ReplyDeleteTo anon 1, you are correct about that and she did a good job and no one complained about the job she did.
ReplyDeleteTo anon #3, I do believe you are right, Costco made this out to be more than it was. I used to work at a Wal Mart in a bad area of town, if this incident happened at our store it would have been nothing and even if we called the cops, we would have had it handled before the cops even got there.
And anon 2, I agree with the you about the Scott family, though they made Eric out to be a saint, which clearly he was not.
I dated a cop once and he was very abusive his friend was even found justified in shooting a kid back in 1997 he claimed the kid had a gun when it turned out to be a basketball. Later he told my man at the time he shot him because he was black cops out here get away with everything and always will
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