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In reply to the discussion: Trayvon Martin was also suspended for graffiti, previously found with 12 pieces of women's jewlery [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)All we know is that a report purportedly described them that way.
If we're being honest, that's all we know: a police report supposedly described them as silver wedding bands and diamond earrings.
We don't have the report, and we don't know who was describing them that way or under what conditions. My daughter often says something looks like a diamond. She's six. It just means clear and sparkly. Silver? Hell, a million things are "silver." It's a color, not an element! Maybe it's the same with the police officer. You don't know that one way or the other, and you have no basis for knowing that. You're pretending - because you REALLY REALLY want to see young Mr. Martin as a criminal - that the article gives you a basis for knowing they contain "silver and diamonds of some kind" which you represent here is a FACT. A fact! But you don't know it as a fact. You know only that a police report which you have not seen describes them that way, which is pretty far from a fucking fact.
So you want to be honest. So you want to wait for the information to come out. Fine then, let's play your game: you don't know that as a fact. You know only that some police officer supposedly used the words "silver" (for more than one ring described as a wedding band!) and "diamond" to describe a pair of earrings. That's all you know for a fact, and to say more is to be deeply, deeply dishonest about what you can know.