NBC News99%

California officer shoots colleague in ‘horseplay’ incident 82%

6/11/2026, 5:52:27 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 47.2% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 824 faulty-reasoning hits from 214 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.6% and a BS Rank of 82% (4,012 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 81.70% of the video peer group.

It happens in a flash. A moment of careless levity quickly taking a turn. 
Newly released dash cam video shows Pasadena police joking around during an evening shift change in September when suddenly one pulls his departmentisssued 
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. 
>> Horse play andor 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. 
While the police department reckons with an embarrassing moment that defies policy and ignores safety. 
and ignores safety. Steve Patterson, NBC News. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
36.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
6.5%
Hindsight Bias
18.7%
Overconfidence Bias
13.6%
Framing Effect
44.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
8.9%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
11.2%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
37.4%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
18.7%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
11.7%
Primacy Effect
10.7%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
47.2%
False Dilemma
8.9%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
11.7%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
23.8%
Begging the Question
7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
18.2%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
10.7%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
39.3%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

214 words analyzed.

Analysis

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