• Dra
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    9 months ago

    Why did he say “I’m hit”

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      9 months ago

      Cops are trained to say that before shooting as a psychological trick to manipulate witnesses. Your brain doesn’t perfectly record the order of events in a situation like that, so to make sense of things you’re likely to misremember one or more of the gunshots being before the “I’m hit” rather than correctly remember that the cop shot first.

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      9 months ago

      Because he’s a hysterical fucking moron who believes himself to be some for of hero warrior.

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      9 months ago

      Reading the article is hard.

      … felt a “tingliness” all along the side of his body. He then said his “legs just give out” and he fell to the ground, assuming that he had been seriously injured by something.

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        9 months ago

        My bad, just watched the vid on another thread and was asking here