It is asinine to berate someone for a retracted assumption then load the rest of your post with your own guess work. smdh
"It is purely conjecture ..."
"It sounds as though ..."
"it would be easy to assume ..."
"I would surmise ..."
"it would appear ..."
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"Maybe refused is inaccurate, he told responding officers he didn't know who shot him."
I said this because after rereading an article I was recalling from memory I realized it was also possible that he was unable to answer.
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Lets talk facts, none of us know what happened all we can do is make assumptions. You have to meet a certain threshold of evidence to "Take them both down to the station". If you violate their constitutional rights to get an arrest, they walk. The only assumption I'm maintaining here is that the responding officers were competent and interested in catching them.
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If you think you can do a better job, go apply, otherwise leave it to the pros. smdh