Tony Shelton
BS Detector, Esquire
The Las Vegas Metro police department has added another notch to their guns by murdering another citizen.
A couple of years ago the Henderson PD murdered an ice cream lady from another country because she was distraught over their harassment of her husband and his ice cream truck and she pulled out a small knife to threaten to kill herself (I guess they didn't pay the vig so they were going to be ticketed out of business)
A couple of years ago a cop going 130 on the interstate with no lights on rear ended a cadillac killing a family of five.
Last year a murdering scumbag cop was going 120 in a 35 zone at 2am in a residential area when an innocent citizen pulled out in front of him without seeing him (no lights). This poor man was almost killed and put his own life in danger trying to use handfuls of dirt to put out the fire on the police car in an attempt to save the dead scumbag that almost killed him. For his trouble he was arrested and jailed for "drunk driving" and lambasted by the Sheriff on TV for killing one of "Las Vegas' finest". They had a big funeral that was televised for 3 hrs for this suicide cop. After FOUR WEEKS independent toxicology reports confirmed that the man had ZERO alchohol in his system, just like he had stated from the beginning.(SINCE WHEN DOES IT TAKE FOR WEEKS TO DETERMINE OF SOMEONE WAS DRUNK????????) NO APOL0GY came forth from Metro for destroying his character. Nor has there been an apology for the nutbag who ran him down.
Two weeks ago a young man was arrested on a search warrant for selling medium amounts of Pot to undercover cops. The guy had no record. His 9 month pregnant girlfriend was in another room watching through the bathroom mirror as an officer told him to stand up, then apparently shot him in the back of the head by accident. (but he made a "furtive" move.)
Thing is, this is the third time this muderer has gotten away with it. The same cop murdered another man around 2004 who he claimed he shot as he pointed a gun at him at point blank range. The gun was found over 35 feet away and the man was shot as he was running away. Later he tried to murder another fleeing suspect but failed to finish the deed as the guy ran away bleeding. To make matters worse, they needed a GUN to connect to the guy so they could claim he made a move towards a gun so a few hours later they raided his mom's home and held his little brother in custody until the mom signed a search consent. Too bad....they was no gun to connect to the young man. This one is still under investigation.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/business-as-usual-for-las-vegas-police-97255569.html
A few years ago a bike cop killed a tourist on Las Vegas Blvd because his music was too loud and he didn't stop his car fast enough when the officer reached inside to grab his keys.
A few months ago a teenager was shot in the back and killed as he fled, handcuffed and high. His mother had called police because she was worried about him being high. I guess they fixed her problem. She doesn't have anything to worry about now.
This weekend was the latest. An upstanding man with a concealed carry permit accidentally bends over or reaches or something in Costco that allows a Costco employee to see his weapon. They freak out, call 911 and a host of cops and a helicopter are waiting outside. The "official" story shown on TV by the lieutenant in charge says a man was "going berserk" in Costco and they were called. At which time he "drew his weapon" and after failing to comply with several orders to drop it, was shot. Twice he re-iterated that the man had "drawn his weapon".
I started keeping up with this right away and reading blogs, eyewitness accounts and comments on the various news stories. I'm pretty sure this man was confonted and asked to leave the store. I'm pretty sure he gave them a tongue lashing about having the right to carry a firearm as an American. He then went to stash his weapon in the car so he could come back in the store and finish his purchases when he was shot at the front door. Here is the latest story:
SUMMERLIN COSTCO STORE: Slaying of Army veteran shocks friends
Man shot by police was West Point grad
By LAWRENCE MOWER
Jul. 12, 2010
The man shot by police outside a Summerlin Costco store on Saturday was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a master's degree from Duke University, friends said.
Army veteran Erik Scott, 39, was at the store near Charleston Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway with his girlfriend before three officers fatally shot him in a confrontation.
Friends and an attorney speaking on behalf of Scott's relatives, described him as a good man from a military family. His father was in the Air Force, and his grandfather fought in World War II, friend Mike Pusateri said.
"The most loyal, honest, trustworthy, salt-of-the-earth guy you could meet," said Pusateri, 38. "You only meet one or two of those kinds of guys in your life, and Erik is one of them."
Scott worked for Boston Scientific, a medical devices manufacturer, as a sales representative for the company's pacemakers. Attorney Ross Goodman, who represents Scott's family, said Scott was one of the company's top sales employees.
Pusateri and Goodman said Scott and his girlfriend were at the Costco because they were moving in together and wanted to buy the things they needed. The two men declined to discuss the events that led to the shooting.
According to Las Vegas police, officers were called to 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive at 12:47 p.m. by a store worker who said a man was destroying merchandise. Police were told the man had a gun.
Capt. Patrick Neville described Scott as "kind of going berserk." Workers evacuated the store. Officers stopped Scott outside as the customers were leaving.
Neville said an officer tapped the man on the shoulder and identified himself as police. Scott then spun around and reached for a gun, law enforcement officials said.
"They ordered him to the ground," Neville said of the officers on Saturday. "He does not comply with that order. He reaches for the weapon, pulls the weapon out, at which time, the weapon was out of the waistband."
Three officers fired multiple times, killing Scott.
One witness interviewed Saturday and three others interviewed Sunday by the Review-Journal gave accounts that differed from what police described.
With a few minor variations, the witnesses recounted matching sequences of events. The witnesses interviewed did not see what happened inside the store that prompted workers to call police. Three of the witnesses, upset by the event, asked that their names not be published.
Once Scott was outside, none of the witnesses saw him brandish a weapon or make any movement that would seem like he was brandishing a weapon.
The first witness already had made his purchases and was waiting in line for a worker to check his receipt when he saw an officer enter the store. The officer whispered something to the worker checking the receipts. The first witness then heard that employee turn to another employee and say, "He said we should let him through."
The four witnesses described a calm rush of customers exiting the front of the store after Costco workers told everyone to leave.
Attorney David Amesbury said he arrived in time to see shoppers leaving. He described the customer exodus as being "like the aftermath of Disneyland."
A customer told Amesbury that he couldn't go in, so the attorney waited on a bench west of the entrance. He said he had a clear view of two officers standing beside the entrance with their guns drawn.
All four witnesses said they were within 20 feet of the store's main entrance. They said Scott walked out of the entrance with the crowd.
They described an officer shouting at Scott, then a quick succession of gunshots.
The witnesses differed in their recollection of what one of the officers said.
Amesbury heard, "I told you to stop. Stop."
Two witnesses interviewed Sunday heard, "Drop it."
A fourth witness, interviewed Saturday, heard, "Get down," "Put it down," or "Get out of the way."
A second anonymous witness said Sunday he saw Scott pull up his shirt and turn toward the shouting officer. Then he saw the man get shot, drop to his knees and fall face-first in front of the entrance.
"There wasn't even time for someone to react," the second witness said. "The guy didn't pull a gun. There was no gun in his hand, there was no gun on the ground."
The second witness said he was interviewed by homicide detectives and gave them the same account.
The first anonymous witness also didn't see Scott make a threat.
"I certainly did not see the guy do anything with a gun that would threaten anybody," the first witness said Sunday. "It appeared to me that if he had guns on him, that they were literally in his pocket or in his waist."
The first witness also was interviewed by homicide detectives about the shooting.
Amesbury said he did not see the man get shot, but, "When I go around the corner, I see this guy laid out. I didn't see a gun." Amesbury's view of the shooting was blocked by stone pillars. He was not interviewed by police.
Before the shooting, Scott was walking with a woman that three witnesses thought was his girlfriend. They said she became distraught after the shooting. The incident also left the witnesses shaken.
It's just incredible "with all these people around that Metro would provoke something there," the second witness said. "I don't want to second-guess the police, but wouldn't it have been better to confront him out at his car?"
After the shooting, some people in the crowd panicked. An elderly woman was knocked down and cut her elbow in the chaos, the second witness said.
Only Scott was struck by gunfire .
Police said Scott had two handguns on him when he was shot. Goodman said Scott had a concealed-weapons permit.
Pusateri said his friend was a "safety freak" around guns. He said that "absolutely not in a million years" would Scott be careless with them around others.
Scott graduated from West Point, in New York, in 1994 and was stationed for a time at Fort Hood, Texas, as a tank platoon leader. In 2003, he graduated from Duke University in North Carolina with a master's degree in business administration.
Friends said they noticed nothing strange about Scott in the days before the shooting.
On Friday, Scott's vehicle was struck by another vehicle while he was rushing a pacemaker to Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, Pusateri said. Scott was not injured in the collision, and a firefighter took the device from the crash scene to the hospital, he said.
Friends were distraught and puzzled as to why police shot and killed Scott.
"He's a stand-up guy in the community," Goodman said. "This guy is not somebody to put himself in a situation like that."
Pusateri, who also sells medical devices, said Scott worked closely with patients in his job. He called Scott's job the "pinnacle" of the business.
"It's very, very sad," Pusateri said. "I'm shocked by it. It's the tragic loss of a great man."
Contact reporter Lawrence Mower at lmower@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0440.
It' time we took out streets back from these gangs. There have been 150 inquests into these police murders over the past 30 years (almost half in the past 7 years) and only ONCE have they been found to be negligent in any way. What are the chances of that????????
I will be actively campaigning against the CAPO of this gang, Sheriff Doug Gillespie. Yes, the same sheriff who covers up all wrong and loses all video evidence every time one of his hit men completes a job. His gang has been taught to treat every citizen as a suspect and they routinely demean and demoralize everyone they come in contact with.
This is an election year and you can bet someone will be sacrificed for this Costco murder, but ONLY because it is an election year and ONLY because it was a white man who was murdered this time. If this were any other year all video would be lost and they would paint this fine upstanding citizen as another lunatic.
Ask yourself, how many news stories do you hear on a daily basis that are just made up fantasy by the police to justify their existence and cover up their corruption? If they will do it in this case, how many other, low profile cases are presented to judges as they railroad innocent people to jail or worse yet, just gun them down in their streets or homes.
This is just another reason our country needs a revolution. You can't fix this from the outside. The answer to this is to not hire ANY police who aren't at least 30 years old and haven't spent at least 10 years working for someone showing that they have the ability to understand what it is like to live in the real world and not this world of coverups and fantasy land where they think they are the only creatures on this planet worth living.
A couple of years ago the Henderson PD murdered an ice cream lady from another country because she was distraught over their harassment of her husband and his ice cream truck and she pulled out a small knife to threaten to kill herself (I guess they didn't pay the vig so they were going to be ticketed out of business)
A couple of years ago a cop going 130 on the interstate with no lights on rear ended a cadillac killing a family of five.
Last year a murdering scumbag cop was going 120 in a 35 zone at 2am in a residential area when an innocent citizen pulled out in front of him without seeing him (no lights). This poor man was almost killed and put his own life in danger trying to use handfuls of dirt to put out the fire on the police car in an attempt to save the dead scumbag that almost killed him. For his trouble he was arrested and jailed for "drunk driving" and lambasted by the Sheriff on TV for killing one of "Las Vegas' finest". They had a big funeral that was televised for 3 hrs for this suicide cop. After FOUR WEEKS independent toxicology reports confirmed that the man had ZERO alchohol in his system, just like he had stated from the beginning.(SINCE WHEN DOES IT TAKE FOR WEEKS TO DETERMINE OF SOMEONE WAS DRUNK????????) NO APOL0GY came forth from Metro for destroying his character. Nor has there been an apology for the nutbag who ran him down.
Two weeks ago a young man was arrested on a search warrant for selling medium amounts of Pot to undercover cops. The guy had no record. His 9 month pregnant girlfriend was in another room watching through the bathroom mirror as an officer told him to stand up, then apparently shot him in the back of the head by accident. (but he made a "furtive" move.)
Thing is, this is the third time this muderer has gotten away with it. The same cop murdered another man around 2004 who he claimed he shot as he pointed a gun at him at point blank range. The gun was found over 35 feet away and the man was shot as he was running away. Later he tried to murder another fleeing suspect but failed to finish the deed as the guy ran away bleeding. To make matters worse, they needed a GUN to connect to the guy so they could claim he made a move towards a gun so a few hours later they raided his mom's home and held his little brother in custody until the mom signed a search consent. Too bad....they was no gun to connect to the young man. This one is still under investigation.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/business-as-usual-for-las-vegas-police-97255569.html
A few years ago a bike cop killed a tourist on Las Vegas Blvd because his music was too loud and he didn't stop his car fast enough when the officer reached inside to grab his keys.
A few months ago a teenager was shot in the back and killed as he fled, handcuffed and high. His mother had called police because she was worried about him being high. I guess they fixed her problem. She doesn't have anything to worry about now.
This weekend was the latest. An upstanding man with a concealed carry permit accidentally bends over or reaches or something in Costco that allows a Costco employee to see his weapon. They freak out, call 911 and a host of cops and a helicopter are waiting outside. The "official" story shown on TV by the lieutenant in charge says a man was "going berserk" in Costco and they were called. At which time he "drew his weapon" and after failing to comply with several orders to drop it, was shot. Twice he re-iterated that the man had "drawn his weapon".
I started keeping up with this right away and reading blogs, eyewitness accounts and comments on the various news stories. I'm pretty sure this man was confonted and asked to leave the store. I'm pretty sure he gave them a tongue lashing about having the right to carry a firearm as an American. He then went to stash his weapon in the car so he could come back in the store and finish his purchases when he was shot at the front door. Here is the latest story:
SUMMERLIN COSTCO STORE: Slaying of Army veteran shocks friends
Man shot by police was West Point grad
By LAWRENCE MOWER
Jul. 12, 2010
The man shot by police outside a Summerlin Costco store on Saturday was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a master's degree from Duke University, friends said.
Army veteran Erik Scott, 39, was at the store near Charleston Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway with his girlfriend before three officers fatally shot him in a confrontation.
Friends and an attorney speaking on behalf of Scott's relatives, described him as a good man from a military family. His father was in the Air Force, and his grandfather fought in World War II, friend Mike Pusateri said.
"The most loyal, honest, trustworthy, salt-of-the-earth guy you could meet," said Pusateri, 38. "You only meet one or two of those kinds of guys in your life, and Erik is one of them."
Scott worked for Boston Scientific, a medical devices manufacturer, as a sales representative for the company's pacemakers. Attorney Ross Goodman, who represents Scott's family, said Scott was one of the company's top sales employees.
Pusateri and Goodman said Scott and his girlfriend were at the Costco because they were moving in together and wanted to buy the things they needed. The two men declined to discuss the events that led to the shooting.
According to Las Vegas police, officers were called to 801 S. Pavilion Center Drive at 12:47 p.m. by a store worker who said a man was destroying merchandise. Police were told the man had a gun.
Capt. Patrick Neville described Scott as "kind of going berserk." Workers evacuated the store. Officers stopped Scott outside as the customers were leaving.
Neville said an officer tapped the man on the shoulder and identified himself as police. Scott then spun around and reached for a gun, law enforcement officials said.
"They ordered him to the ground," Neville said of the officers on Saturday. "He does not comply with that order. He reaches for the weapon, pulls the weapon out, at which time, the weapon was out of the waistband."
Three officers fired multiple times, killing Scott.
One witness interviewed Saturday and three others interviewed Sunday by the Review-Journal gave accounts that differed from what police described.
With a few minor variations, the witnesses recounted matching sequences of events. The witnesses interviewed did not see what happened inside the store that prompted workers to call police. Three of the witnesses, upset by the event, asked that their names not be published.
Once Scott was outside, none of the witnesses saw him brandish a weapon or make any movement that would seem like he was brandishing a weapon.
The first witness already had made his purchases and was waiting in line for a worker to check his receipt when he saw an officer enter the store. The officer whispered something to the worker checking the receipts. The first witness then heard that employee turn to another employee and say, "He said we should let him through."
The four witnesses described a calm rush of customers exiting the front of the store after Costco workers told everyone to leave.
Attorney David Amesbury said he arrived in time to see shoppers leaving. He described the customer exodus as being "like the aftermath of Disneyland."
A customer told Amesbury that he couldn't go in, so the attorney waited on a bench west of the entrance. He said he had a clear view of two officers standing beside the entrance with their guns drawn.
All four witnesses said they were within 20 feet of the store's main entrance. They said Scott walked out of the entrance with the crowd.
They described an officer shouting at Scott, then a quick succession of gunshots.
The witnesses differed in their recollection of what one of the officers said.
Amesbury heard, "I told you to stop. Stop."
Two witnesses interviewed Sunday heard, "Drop it."
A fourth witness, interviewed Saturday, heard, "Get down," "Put it down," or "Get out of the way."
A second anonymous witness said Sunday he saw Scott pull up his shirt and turn toward the shouting officer. Then he saw the man get shot, drop to his knees and fall face-first in front of the entrance.
"There wasn't even time for someone to react," the second witness said. "The guy didn't pull a gun. There was no gun in his hand, there was no gun on the ground."
The second witness said he was interviewed by homicide detectives and gave them the same account.
The first anonymous witness also didn't see Scott make a threat.
"I certainly did not see the guy do anything with a gun that would threaten anybody," the first witness said Sunday. "It appeared to me that if he had guns on him, that they were literally in his pocket or in his waist."
The first witness also was interviewed by homicide detectives about the shooting.
Amesbury said he did not see the man get shot, but, "When I go around the corner, I see this guy laid out. I didn't see a gun." Amesbury's view of the shooting was blocked by stone pillars. He was not interviewed by police.
Before the shooting, Scott was walking with a woman that three witnesses thought was his girlfriend. They said she became distraught after the shooting. The incident also left the witnesses shaken.
It's just incredible "with all these people around that Metro would provoke something there," the second witness said. "I don't want to second-guess the police, but wouldn't it have been better to confront him out at his car?"
After the shooting, some people in the crowd panicked. An elderly woman was knocked down and cut her elbow in the chaos, the second witness said.
Only Scott was struck by gunfire .
Police said Scott had two handguns on him when he was shot. Goodman said Scott had a concealed-weapons permit.
Pusateri said his friend was a "safety freak" around guns. He said that "absolutely not in a million years" would Scott be careless with them around others.
Scott graduated from West Point, in New York, in 1994 and was stationed for a time at Fort Hood, Texas, as a tank platoon leader. In 2003, he graduated from Duke University in North Carolina with a master's degree in business administration.
Friends said they noticed nothing strange about Scott in the days before the shooting.
On Friday, Scott's vehicle was struck by another vehicle while he was rushing a pacemaker to Summerlin Hospital Medical Center, Pusateri said. Scott was not injured in the collision, and a firefighter took the device from the crash scene to the hospital, he said.
Friends were distraught and puzzled as to why police shot and killed Scott.
"He's a stand-up guy in the community," Goodman said. "This guy is not somebody to put himself in a situation like that."
Pusateri, who also sells medical devices, said Scott worked closely with patients in his job. He called Scott's job the "pinnacle" of the business.
"It's very, very sad," Pusateri said. "I'm shocked by it. It's the tragic loss of a great man."
Contact reporter Lawrence Mower at lmower@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0440.
It' time we took out streets back from these gangs. There have been 150 inquests into these police murders over the past 30 years (almost half in the past 7 years) and only ONCE have they been found to be negligent in any way. What are the chances of that????????
I will be actively campaigning against the CAPO of this gang, Sheriff Doug Gillespie. Yes, the same sheriff who covers up all wrong and loses all video evidence every time one of his hit men completes a job. His gang has been taught to treat every citizen as a suspect and they routinely demean and demoralize everyone they come in contact with.
This is an election year and you can bet someone will be sacrificed for this Costco murder, but ONLY because it is an election year and ONLY because it was a white man who was murdered this time. If this were any other year all video would be lost and they would paint this fine upstanding citizen as another lunatic.
Ask yourself, how many news stories do you hear on a daily basis that are just made up fantasy by the police to justify their existence and cover up their corruption? If they will do it in this case, how many other, low profile cases are presented to judges as they railroad innocent people to jail or worse yet, just gun them down in their streets or homes.
This is just another reason our country needs a revolution. You can't fix this from the outside. The answer to this is to not hire ANY police who aren't at least 30 years old and haven't spent at least 10 years working for someone showing that they have the ability to understand what it is like to live in the real world and not this world of coverups and fantasy land where they think they are the only creatures on this planet worth living.
