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Who writes police reports, do you think? I was arrested at a protest once, and my police report said I was menacingly carrying a sharpened stick, amongst other
by sdenton4 11y ago
Who writes police reports, do you think?
I was arrested at a protest once, and my police report said I was menacingly carrying a sharpened stick, amongst other things. This was meant to indicate a protest sign, which in fact I wasn't actually carrying... the police write whatever they want in the reports, and if there's a question of police misconduct, they should be taken with a huge grain of salt.
- Alupis 11y agoAnd of course when the coroner's report comes out in a few days and states suicide as the cause of death, cites enough alcohol in his system to kill a moose, and possibly drugs... we'll all reject it as part of the cover up, you know... because police brutality! Sometimes things are what they are. Don't go looking for examples to fuel your anti-police paranoia just because it makes you feel good. It's tragic Ian passed, but there's no evidence he was somehow murdered by police.
- dang 11y agoI appreciate the concern about evidence, but please stop fuelling this controversy.
- Alupis 11y ago> I appreciate the concern about evidence, but please stop fuelling this controversy. Quite the opposite. I'm demonstrating there is nothing to be of controversy here. It's pretty clear what occurred here (we do have many of the facts now), yet many want to go off on some wild conspiracy theory. That's fueling controversy purely for the sake of controversy. With that said - I do believe all the cases have been made, and people will see what they want to see, regardless of the truth.
- fao_ 11y agoTruth is exactly what we are essentially searching for here. Some people have good reason not to trust police reports, as abuse of authority is rife within many districts in the US and UK. This does not mean that we would disagree with what an official independent report would state because "It has to be a conspiracy", or any other garbage reason -- it just means that we disagree that the outcome of the official police report is necessarily correct, because of the bias police reports can hold.
- dang 11y agoI get that and I appreciate the intent, but it doesn't matter whether you're burning conspiracy theories or something else, you're still adding fuel to the fire. It's keeping this unseemly argument going, so please stop.
- puredemo 11y agoWouldn't want an unseemly argument to continue... people might gawk.
- dinkumthinkum 11y agoI think it is fair game to argue against breathless conspiracy theories. It sort of surprising to see in this thread such complete acceptance for the "the police murdered him" narrative while noting the obvious reality, that this is extremely unlikely and the truth is probably much simpler, is actually extremely derided.