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ProgressiveProfessor

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14. That was the claim...

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #10)

Sat May 26, 2012, 09:21 PM

May 2012

Very poorly written article...

If the first responders had probable cause, he would have been arrested for it.

If they thought there was something to the story, they would have detained him on some pretext.

That they did neither means that at that time, they either had nothing to say a crime has been committed or not enough reason to think the guy was the perp.

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