I don't know if you spend much time around college campuses but in my experience students hang out a lot in marginal places to get quiet time. To automatically assume someone is out of place without determining if they are a student seems very, very, very odd.
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It's not very, very odd if you think it's a man at a women's college, in a place where you've never seen students before.
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The gender misidentification is itself a tell.
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How can it be a tell, since we have no idea what the student was wearing or what her legs looked like? Also, for what it's worth, the cop said that when he and the janitor talked after the incident, the janitor said he didn't know the person was black when he called it in.
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We do know something about what the student was wearing that day: Dressed for the gym in the summer. And that she's a 5'2" female in her late teens.
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Don't you think it's weird that the janitor specifically told the cop he didn't know the person's race, but that he specifically told the investigators that he did? Why is his story changing?
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I don't know, because he had no obvious incentive to tell the investigators that he knew the person was black. I actually wonder if, because race became so salient, he just retrospectively "remembered" that he had been able to tell the person was black, even though he hadn't.
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But that might be totally wrong.
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I'm not really interested in the janitor, who was following rules set by others, as by Smith and the Times. When I read the Times article I just assumed it was accurate but Lindsay brings up a whole lot of big missing facts that should have been there.
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Just want to clarify that this whole discussion began because Lindsey described what happened in the incident in ways that were not consistent with Times article or the report itself.
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Right, but even allowing for corrections to what she originally wrote, there's plenty in the report that should make one skeptical of the Times' reporting (and I say this as someone who took the Times report at face value when I read it.
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I saw not one thing in the report that made me skeptical of the Times reporting.
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Did you notice that the Times report completely mischaracterized the student's comments about how the officer could have had a gun?
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