Officer accidentally shoots colleague during 'horseplay' ^⁠98%

6/12/2026, 3:53:12 AM

Topics: Video

BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Hasty Generalization, and Availability Heuristic, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 83.9% saturation with 172 hits. Analysis detected 818 faulty-reasoning hits from 205 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 96.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠98% (548 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.50% of the video peer group.

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It happens in a flash, a moment of careless levity quickly taking a turn.

Newly released dashcam video shows Pasadena police joking around during an evening shift change in September when suddenly one pulls his department-issued firearm in a quick draw, appearing to aim it at the driver.

Then a bang, gun smoke, cracked glass.

The driver accidentally fires through the windshield, wounding a colleague.

Officer down, but far from the line of duty.

>> The shooting resulted from officers engaged in unsafe and out of policy horseplay involving loaded firearms.

>> In a video statement, Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris says the officer was seriously injured but recovered and that disciplinary measures were taken.

>> Horseplay and/or failure to adhere to safety rules and standards of professional conduct will not be tolerated.

>> And tonight the city telling NBC News the officer in the car was relieved of his position and is no longer with the department.

The police chief saying the incident is still under criminal investigation, but the District Attorney's Office telling NBC News they have yet to receive the case.

Well, the police department reckons with an embarrassing moment that defies policy and ignores safety.

Confirmation Bias

8.3%

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

29.8%

Representativeness Heuristic

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

Framing Effect

83.9%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

12.7%

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

24.9%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

24.9%

Actor-Observer Bias

4.9%

In-Group Bias

7.3%

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

Primacy Effect

8.8%

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

11.7%

False Dilemma

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

32.2%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

66.3%

Begging the Question

8.8%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

13.2%

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

12.7%

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

16.6%

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

2.9%

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

23.4%

Quote-first Misdirection

2.9%

Biased Writer Voice

2.9%

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

205 words analyzed.

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Officer accidentally shoots colleague during 'horseplay' ^⁠98%

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Officer accidentally shoots colleague during 'horseplay' ⁠98%

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Officer accidentally shoots colleague during 'horseplay' ^⁠98%