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"A neighborhood dispute gets ugly. Why an off-duty police officer is accused of pulling his gun on his neighbor."
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 3:08 AM, July 30, 2015
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 7:26 AM, July 30, 2015
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Sorry: I don't get what you're complaining about here. They can't say "Why he pulled his gun," because that presumes that he did. They're going to tell you why he's accused -- that is, the alleged reason he did it, as you say. No?
Now, if they said, "Why [he] is accused of allegedly pulling his gun," then that would be badly written.
The question here seems to be "why do they say he did it?" that isn't a questioning of whether he did it but their identification of him. It accepts that a gun was drawn and questions why they say it was him.
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