note how police language has infected even conservancy-involved owl-making-contact-with-a-vehicle incidents
Yes, there is a difference! Moreover both factual situations can be clearly expressed.
What’s at issue with all police language is creating deliberate ambiguity so that other people with less access to the facts can make tendentious arguments about what might have happened.
The @SDSheriff’s office last night began promoting a scary and strange video they produced of one of their deputies collapsing in a parking lot from what they suspected to be a fentanyl exposure. In response to skepticism, they started saying things we know not to be true.
The American Medical Association has tried to dispel the myth that brief dermal exposure to fentanyl can cause a lethal overdose.
From 2019: “Fentanyl is so poorly absorbed through the skin that it required years of research to develop a fentanyl patch.” ama-assn.org/system/files/2…
The video—which features bodycam footage interspersed with interviews of the deputy and his partner and commentary from the sheriff—has led to some seriously credulous reporting by the usual suspects. For example: foxnews.com/us/san-diego-c…
The long awaited OIG report into the FBI New York Office is out, and it’s a nothingburger.
In capsule form, so many FBI agents talked to reporters that they couldn’t figure out who leaked anything specific, and they let Giuliani blatantly lie to them. oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
This guy.
Just to remind people how serious this once was, an old thread:
“Trends have dramatically worsened since June 2021 and transmission is rapidly accelerating in the United States,” CDC Director Walensky writes.
The rubber hits the road in this CDC order in the “covered person” definition, which obliges people under threat of eviction to provide a six-point declaration to their landlord under penalty of perjury—including that they live in a substantial or high transmission area.
It’s the little details, like @RichAzzopardi getting Wite-Out to obscure everyone else’s name, that can go so far to establish consciousness of guilt. ag.ny.gov/sites/default/…
Not every day you see a running world record fall by almost a full second.
The bronze medal guy from Brazil p much ran the old world record and wasn’t even in the picture at the finish.
Rye Benjamin was really broken up in the post race interviews because he didn’t get the gold, but he did amazing! The Brazilian bronze medalist did amazing! And Rye beat him by more than half a second!