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BOB OWENS: Gunned Down in Vegas: What Really Happened to Erik Scott? ?An accomplished young man is?

By Glenn Reynolds

BOB OWENS: Gunned Down in Vegas: What Really Happened to Erik Scott? “An accomplished young man is killed by police outside a Vegas Costco, and bystander accounts starkly contrast with official reports. . . . For the record, the Costco did not have signs posted prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons. Scott did not violate any laws in carrying his weapon in the store. It is quite possible that Erik Scott was gunned down without having committed so much as a misdemeanor crime, and that the officers who shot him will be merely the latest exonerated in a long line from an apparently unaccountable police force.”

Here’s a statement from Scott’s father in the West Point Alumni class notes. (Bumped).

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 17, 2010 (boomark / email).