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Comment by kcplate | Hacker News Reader

I basically stopped reading the original article here:

>>Officials say Manuel shot first at a state trooper “without warning” and an officer or officers returned fire, but they have produced no evidence for the claim.

Except of course…for the trooper with the bullet wound in the hospital that is communicated in the very next sentence…

>>The trooper was described as stable and in hospital Thursday.

How does this story get past an editor?

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A bullet doesn't guarantee your chronology. The article's factual basis is correct: the police claim he fired first, and an officer was shot, but we lack the bodycam footage to actually verify the chronology.

I’d suggest that you are more likely to be shot by the police if you provoke them first than the other way around. Especially if other folks were also arrested in the same police operation without provoking the police and managed to avoid being shot and killed in the process.

> I’d suggest that you are more likely to be shot by the police if you provoke them first than the other way around.

I don't dispute this. But "provocation" is not a capital crime in this country.

By "provocation" I imagine the commenter means "pulled out a weapon."

Which in the presence of a police officer intent on arresting you is a pretty a sure fire way to have bullets introduced into your body against your will.

It gets past an editor when the editor has an agenda.

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