From the LVRJ: The family of Erik Scott, who was shot and killed by officers outside a Costco store in 2010, has dropped their lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department.
Police said Tuesday that the family agreed to drop the lawsuit if the agency did not pursue them for legal fees.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/costco-shooting-victim-s-family-drops-lawsuit-against-police-142560795.html
Wait a minute. When this was all going down, the family and friends of Eric Scott were all over Metro and saying that Scott was murdered by Metro cops. They also said the truth would come out at trial. They had the people of the Las Vegas Valley thinking Metro screwed up. And now they drop the law suit?
And now they settle with the only promise given is that Metro won't seek attorney fees from the Scott's. This has to be very disappointing to the followers of the Scott family- it appears they got suckered into believing the Scott's rather than Metro.
So, where does Metro and the police officers involved in the shooting go get their reputation back?
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2 hours ago
Why were the cameras at Costco not working??
ReplyDeleteWhere was the "no guns in our store, please" sign? right to carry is a RIGHT unless trumped by the property rights of the store but they need to provide adequate notice. Scott was their business invitee when he was murdered. What happened to the Costco employee whose overreaction triggered the whole incident. Last do the police really have the right to issue three contradictory orders when the failure to comply with any one of them will result in your summary execution? which order do you obey? the Spanish crown post Columbus had a novel formulation: newly encountered indiginious peoples were told in Latin they had to immediately become Catholic Christian and submit to the political authority of Ferdinand and Isabel. Failure to comply was punishable by death or enslavement.
I had the same questions when this first started, and I wrote about it and took the side of Erik Scott.
DeleteHowever, as time went by, I gegan having second thoughts and the fact that the Scott family dropped the lawsuit only for the reason that they won't have to pay Metro's legal bills seems to me that the Scott family also thinks this.
In most cases, Metro will throw a few dollars at a case just to have it go away, so I just think that Scott family knew they had a bad case and took the only deal they could get.
I am very disappointed they dropped the lawsuit, but they may have seen the truth about what happened that horrible day.