The two newest links are TSA Goons and Dog Murderers (turns out cops like killing pets too!).
As Jefferson noted, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. In ways too numerous to count, we've fallen well short of that vigilant ideal. This is our OTHER national debt, comprised of our countless failures to keep government within Constitutional limits. The interest on our vast indifference is being collected regularly now, and the price is just as high as at any other time in history.
These new links won't bring joy, but to fight we need to know what's going on.. Please, everyone - read. Get angry. Do something. Unless we all join the fight for freedom, that interest payment will consume our entire nation, just as it consumed Erik Scott...
Chronicling the life, wrongful death and coming vindication of Erik B. Scott. Illuminating the growing problem of police misconduct in America, and motivating honest Americans to rise up and put an end to the epidemic.
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25 February 2011
Further Evidence of Official Misconduct in Erik Scott Shooting
This report just in from News 3. I created a News 3 account under the handle "Fred J" and have added my responses to a few cop comments, here: http://www.mynews3.com/story.php?id=38417&n=5037
Edited to add: Here's a LINK to an in-depth analysis by Confederate Yankee of this incident - the illegal entry into Erik's home by Clark County Public Administrator Steve Grodin. Thanks for the suggestion, Mike!!
Edited to add: Here's a LINK to an in-depth analysis by Confederate Yankee of this incident - the illegal entry into Erik's home by Clark County Public Administrator Steve Grodin. Thanks for the suggestion, Mike!!
A new accusation in the shooting death of Erik Scott
Page Last Updated: Thursday February 24, 2011 5:49pm PST
Matt Kozar reporting
There is a new accusation against the government in the case of Erik Scott, the 38 year old man who was shot and killed by Metro officers at a Summerlin Costco last July.
Within hours of the shooting, agents from a little-known county agency, the Public Administrator’s Office, entered the apartment Scott shared with his girlfriend.
Did the government violate her constitutional right to refuse to let them into her home without a warrant?
“This is Steve Grodin from the Public Administrator’s Office. I need to get in touch with you right away. It’s regarding your brother’s property.”
A few hours after Scott was killed by police at Costco, Steve Grodin, a deputy, left that voicemail on the phone of Scott’s brother. The recording was given to News 3 by the Scott family and has since been posted on the internet.
“I’ve got full authority to break the door in, if I have to,” the message continued.
In the voicemail, Grodin said he was with a Metro officer and wanted permission to enter the apartment to secure valuables.
“I’ll get the Metro Police [to] come back when the locksmith gets here.”
The public administrator is responsible for protecting a person’s property when he or she dies and a family member isn’t able to do so. Scott lived at an apartment complex near North Town Center and records show a locksmith made entry and changed the locks on the door after, according to deputies, Scott’s girlfriend wouldn’t cooperate.
According to the corresponding inventory sheet, deputies took several items from Scott’s apartment, including a .40 caliber handgun with two magazines, a West Point saber, four checkbooks, three watches, and a paintball gun.
Public Administrator John Cahill says all of the items were returned to the family.
“We always take firearms,” Cahill explains. “We always take any kind of weapon. We always take cash, jewelry, credit cards.”
Cahill showed us the warehouse where he stores people’s property, which ultimately goes to the state if never claimed.
Cahill says his deputy had full legal authority to enter Erik Scott’s property on the day of the shooting but wishes his deputy hadn’t sounded so abrasive in the voice message.
“Saying something like we can break the door down if we need to go in seemed to me a very awkward way of saying we have the authority to protect the property.”
Cahill told us police accompany his deputies on most calls for safety reasons.
“I asked him [deputy] ‘What did Metro do while you were searching the property? He said they just stood back like they usually do.”
Metro would not speak with News 3 about the incident on-camera, but a spokesperson told us they work with the public administrator frequently.
The Scott family would not speak with us because of pending litigation. We did, however, speak with family friend and de facto family spokesperson Lisa Mayo-Deriso.
“They actually violated the statute. [That] is one of the concerns I have,” Mayo-Deriso said.
Mayo-Deriso says the Scott family believes there was no reason for the public administrator to break into Erik’s home because his live-in girlfriend, who was with Erik during the shooting, could have secured his property.
“They were al little upset because Samantha [girlfriend] had said ‘No, I don’t want you going in there. I have a key and I live there and I can go in.’”
Matt Kozar: What’s most concerning for you about this whole incident?
“The sense of urgency in the voice of the public administrator in the recording; like we have to get in there now. My initial thought is it raises some concern.”
The incident is attracting the attention of Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, who worked closely with the coroner’s inquest panel because of the Scott case.
“I think it’s definitely something we need to look at in terms of establishing what the procedure is and have some clearly verifiable, understandable procedure that everybody would follow,” Sisolak said.
The Public Administrator’s Office handles about 1,000 calls a year. The Scott family was charged a $150 Public Administrator’s Office fee in addition to a $110 fee for the locksmith.
Nevada revised statutes say there are exactly two circumstances in which a public administrator may secure property before getting judicial permission: when there are no relatives available to protect the property and when failure to do so could endanger the property.
There is a new accusation against the government in the case of Erik Scott, the 38 year old man who was shot and killed by Metro officers at a Summerlin Costco last July.
Within hours of the shooting, agents from a little-known county agency, the Public Administrator’s Office, entered the apartment Scott shared with his girlfriend.
Did the government violate her constitutional right to refuse to let them into her home without a warrant?
“This is Steve Grodin from the Public Administrator’s Office. I need to get in touch with you right away. It’s regarding your brother’s property.”
A few hours after Scott was killed by police at Costco, Steve Grodin, a deputy, left that voicemail on the phone of Scott’s brother. The recording was given to News 3 by the Scott family and has since been posted on the internet.
“I’ve got full authority to break the door in, if I have to,” the message continued.
In the voicemail, Grodin said he was with a Metro officer and wanted permission to enter the apartment to secure valuables.
“I’ll get the Metro Police [to] come back when the locksmith gets here.”
The public administrator is responsible for protecting a person’s property when he or she dies and a family member isn’t able to do so. Scott lived at an apartment complex near North Town Center and records show a locksmith made entry and changed the locks on the door after, according to deputies, Scott’s girlfriend wouldn’t cooperate.
According to the corresponding inventory sheet, deputies took several items from Scott’s apartment, including a .40 caliber handgun with two magazines, a West Point saber, four checkbooks, three watches, and a paintball gun.
Public Administrator John Cahill says all of the items were returned to the family.
“We always take firearms,” Cahill explains. “We always take any kind of weapon. We always take cash, jewelry, credit cards.”
Cahill showed us the warehouse where he stores people’s property, which ultimately goes to the state if never claimed.
Cahill says his deputy had full legal authority to enter Erik Scott’s property on the day of the shooting but wishes his deputy hadn’t sounded so abrasive in the voice message.
“Saying something like we can break the door down if we need to go in seemed to me a very awkward way of saying we have the authority to protect the property.”
Cahill told us police accompany his deputies on most calls for safety reasons.
“I asked him [deputy] ‘What did Metro do while you were searching the property? He said they just stood back like they usually do.”
Metro would not speak with News 3 about the incident on-camera, but a spokesperson told us they work with the public administrator frequently.
The Scott family would not speak with us because of pending litigation. We did, however, speak with family friend and de facto family spokesperson Lisa Mayo-Deriso.
“They actually violated the statute. [That] is one of the concerns I have,” Mayo-Deriso said.
Mayo-Deriso says the Scott family believes there was no reason for the public administrator to break into Erik’s home because his live-in girlfriend, who was with Erik during the shooting, could have secured his property.
“They were al little upset because Samantha [girlfriend] had said ‘No, I don’t want you going in there. I have a key and I live there and I can go in.’”
Matt Kozar: What’s most concerning for you about this whole incident?
“The sense of urgency in the voice of the public administrator in the recording; like we have to get in there now. My initial thought is it raises some concern.”
The incident is attracting the attention of Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, who worked closely with the coroner’s inquest panel because of the Scott case.
“I think it’s definitely something we need to look at in terms of establishing what the procedure is and have some clearly verifiable, understandable procedure that everybody would follow,” Sisolak said.
The Public Administrator’s Office handles about 1,000 calls a year. The Scott family was charged a $150 Public Administrator’s Office fee in addition to a $110 fee for the locksmith.
Nevada revised statutes say there are exactly two circumstances in which a public administrator may secure property before getting judicial permission: when there are no relatives available to protect the property and when failure to do so could endanger the property.
07 February 2011
Cop Who Shot Erik Scott Charged With Felony, Suspended Without Pay
24 year old treasure Thomas Rosco Mendiola, who shot Erik Scott in the back, has been charged with the felony crime of furnishing a firearm to a person he knew was a convicted felon. Mendiola is presently suspended without pay. As if this weren't startling enough, it turns out that Mendiola has something of a personal relationship with this felon. The felon, one Robert Justice (!) has been to Mendiola's home and has worked on Mendiola's personal car on at least two separate occasions. No honest cop (or or even a dishonest but prudent cop) would have an off duty personal relationship with a known felon, let alone hire him to work on personal property or furnish him a gun. To my logical brain, this extraordinary lapse of judgment is only possible if Mendiola is both corrupt and supremely confident that he is above the law.
Like all pawns in the chess game of government oppression, Mendiola is actually expendable. This fact must have dawned on Mendiola by now - a belated and no doubt surprising discovery for any smug thug in a department like Metro. Were I Mendiola (and I thank God I'm not) I would be rather concerned right about now. After all, with the failure of thecoverup inquest to bring this shooting case to the expected and accustomed closure, he has become a real liability to the department.
This felony case is the county's opportunity to throw Mendiola under a bus, and at first blush this looks to be exactly what's happening. The outcome is rife with any number of potentially unpleasant results for the person of Thomas Rosco. Failure to appear for trial, followed by bleached bones in the desert? Prison, confined with hundreds of inmates that the cops have abused with impunity for decades? Perhaps Mendiola should write down all the dirt he has on the entire chain of command, arrange to have everything released in the event of his disappearance or death, and let the relevant parties know of his precaution.
Information has also surfaced that Mendiola failed Las Vegas Metro's training program the first time around, and that he was given a second chance to complete the training in order to become a cop. This is interesting on a number of levels, and the attorneys suing the officers and Clark County on behalf of the Scott family must be salivating. From the standpoint of liability, it will be very fascinating to see why Mendiola failed training.
This just gets curiouser and curiouser. I'm thinking the next step ought to be a civil RICO class action, if such a thing is possible..
Like all pawns in the chess game of government oppression, Mendiola is actually expendable. This fact must have dawned on Mendiola by now - a belated and no doubt surprising discovery for any smug thug in a department like Metro. Were I Mendiola (and I thank God I'm not) I would be rather concerned right about now. After all, with the failure of the
This felony case is the county's opportunity to throw Mendiola under a bus, and at first blush this looks to be exactly what's happening. The outcome is rife with any number of potentially unpleasant results for the person of Thomas Rosco. Failure to appear for trial, followed by bleached bones in the desert? Prison, confined with hundreds of inmates that the cops have abused with impunity for decades? Perhaps Mendiola should write down all the dirt he has on the entire chain of command, arrange to have everything released in the event of his disappearance or death, and let the relevant parties know of his precaution.
Information has also surfaced that Mendiola failed Las Vegas Metro's training program the first time around, and that he was given a second chance to complete the training in order to become a cop. This is interesting on a number of levels, and the attorneys suing the officers and Clark County on behalf of the Scott family must be salivating. From the standpoint of liability, it will be very fascinating to see why Mendiola failed training.
This just gets curiouser and curiouser. I'm thinking the next step ought to be a civil RICO class action, if such a thing is possible..
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