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In reply to the discussion: Vermont teen accuses police of sexual assault after arrest [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)1: it only workers to be edited to elimite parts not relevant to her actions. Maybe not, but since it's public record if they actually did selective editing I'm sure some news source of her lawyers will get the full one and it will bite them in the ass. Since the PD knows this I doubt they would dig that hole.
2: Asking questions, even repetitive, isn't escalating anything. When someone refuses to answer you keep asking. It's also a common technique to ask the same question in different ways or many times to see if someone is being deceptive. While a person is detained the officers job is to investigate what is happening and questions are a valid part of that. Calling that a form of escalation is absurd.
3: No, when you are being detained you are not free to do whatever you want. You can't interfere with the officers work of investigating and that includes move or remove or destroy items he has laid out. It's her bong, but it's part of the criminal investigation at that point and she can't just do whatever she wants with it.
She didn't just "ask if he was concerned" about her running, she did so while jumping at him and making arm/hand gestures at that at a minimum were meant to be antagonistic, if not intended to be threatening. If you didn't see that I suggest rewatching the video with glasses.
4 and 5: I hope we see more.