Re: Where the fuck is the NRA?

>If he had brandshed the gun, the videos would have recorded it. We have 
>some very good video that shows definitivly that he did not brandish a 
>gun.
>
>OTOH, as one podcaster pointed out, the ICE picture of the gun (why was 
>the barrel bent?) was taken on the seat of a vehicle, while we do have 
>some evidence that a gun was taken from the pile-on, we have no evidence 
>that the one in the picture was the one taken from the pile-on nor do we 
>have evidence that it was Pretti's gun.

It is highly likely so that one or more of the cameras would have
recorded the brandishment of a gun had Pretti done such a thing, but
the null hypothesis is that he did *not*.  That holds without support
unless shown to be false.

Where it gets tricky is that the burden reverses when the agent is
charged with a crime.  Now, the assumption is that the agent could not
have feared for his life, and I can't say that's so.

What disturbs me is that we tend to jump to easy interpretations in a
very complicated environment.  Best, IMHO, to get ICE out of there.
It's obviously not going to have a happy ending!