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.
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