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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Eric Scott Jury Deliberating

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.