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In reply to the discussion: I'm a black doctor. My neighbors called the cops on me for listening to Biggie. [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Nowhere does it mention guns drawn. Are we making up new facts now?
It does say His hand was near his hip, close to the gun in its holster.. So his gun wasnt drawn, and his hand wasnt even on his gun. It was near it. Well thats a totally meaningless statement, because I challenge you you stand there in a natural pose with your arms falling where they normally do and not have your right hand near your hip where a holster goes. Yeah, thats kind of how human anatomy works. I bet 99% of your day if you are standing if you are not doing something with your right hands its going to be near your hip too.
But you can see how her statement there had its desired effect. By pointing out his hand was near his gun because thats where arms go when you stand she took an innocuous thing and turned it into a misleading way to describe nothing threatening that led you to think he had a gun drawn.
See how she, by using ominous terms to describe nothing more than the officers arms in a resting position, manipulated your thoughts to think it was something far more than it was?