If you take a look at the most logical explanation, it revolves around money, which is what Las Vegas was built on. Mandalay Bay is AT BEST negligent in allowing a hotel guest to bypass security on multiple occasions to bring in large amounts of guns and ammunition past hotel security and past the vast amounts of cameras throughout the hotel without detection. Now, IF the hotel were to release the footage, it would essentially be proof of this negligence, thereby making them directly liable to the families of the 58 people killed and also to the hundreds injured. The legal liability to each of the plaintiffs in the cases that would be filed would run in the hundreds of millions of dollars and bring the hotel bad publicity for years, potentially bankrupting them.
So, the hotel has essentially "gone dark" knowing that they have influence with the LVPD and local officials who are affected as well by the loss of tourism money. They will work behind the scenes to drag out any legal actions, institute gag orders and pressure those who have info to either be quiet by pressure or by a payout much lower than what it would be in court.
It is a calculated gamble by a hotel and a city which has made hundreds of billions of dollars doing the same thing every day.
Conspiracies aside (and I'm not saying some of them aren't valid,) that is the most logical answer at this point.
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MacPhisto ago
If you take a look at the most logical explanation, it revolves around money, which is what Las Vegas was built on. Mandalay Bay is AT BEST negligent in allowing a hotel guest to bypass security on multiple occasions to bring in large amounts of guns and ammunition past hotel security and past the vast amounts of cameras throughout the hotel without detection. Now, IF the hotel were to release the footage, it would essentially be proof of this negligence, thereby making them directly liable to the families of the 58 people killed and also to the hundreds injured. The legal liability to each of the plaintiffs in the cases that would be filed would run in the hundreds of millions of dollars and bring the hotel bad publicity for years, potentially bankrupting them.
So, the hotel has essentially "gone dark" knowing that they have influence with the LVPD and local officials who are affected as well by the loss of tourism money. They will work behind the scenes to drag out any legal actions, institute gag orders and pressure those who have info to either be quiet by pressure or by a payout much lower than what it would be in court.
It is a calculated gamble by a hotel and a city which has made hundreds of billions of dollars doing the same thing every day.
Conspiracies aside (and I'm not saying some of them aren't valid,) that is the most logical answer at this point.
M4rt1n ago
They just murdered Orville Almon.
They will be brought to justice.