Police shooter had the “label”.

On September 09^th, LVMPD officers encountered Marc Hull  at a local WalMart Superstore due to a call stating that he and his girlfriend were attempting to unlawfully use a credit card to purchase $4,000.00 of electronics equipment.  (News 8 Story)

The card belonged to a deceased person who had died in 2000.

During the encounter, Hull drew a weapon and fired at responding officers, hitting one officer multiple times, including at least once in his bullet-resistant vest.

Officers returned fire, putting Hull down, who later died in a local hospital.

Media released Hull’s back tattoo, probably done in prison, depicting a grotesque, zombie-like humanoid, holding a LVMP (sic) officer around his throat and a revolver to his head.  Also on the top of the “artwork” was the words to the effect of “F#$K Police”.

Let’s regress.

July 9^th, 2011, officers responded to Costco in the Summerlin area to a call reference a person, later identified as Erik Scott , acting irrationally inside the store.

During the encounter, Scott pulled a weapon from his waistband and was shot dead by responding police.

The uproar that followed about the police shooting was a media circus, including a still pending lawsuit by the family, a banner dragged across the skies by an airplane, numerous interviews by the Scott family, among other things.

If you looked at the pictures of Erik Scott, you would see a handsome, well-dressed young man.

If you listened to his past from his family, you would hear how he was a West Point graduate and a model citizen.

If you knew Erik’s past, you knew he was dating a drug addict.  He was a drug addict himself.  His blood toxicology showed a myriad of drugs in his blood at the time of the shooting, but you couldn’t see that “label”.

I guess my comparison is still to be proven, but my guess is that Hull will be demonized as a “piece of crap” based on his “label” and he won’t get near the publicity that Erik Scott received.

I had a conversation with someone recently regarding why people would label themselves by using tattoos, piercings, sagging pants, descriptive clothing, etc.

I responded that they wanted to fill their own niche and let society know “you are either with or against me”.

I guess Hull found out who was against him…