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cstanleytech

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23. Difference? None but it could explain the part here from Stonewall Police Chief

Reply to awoke_in_2003 (Reply #18)

Sun Jul 12, 2015, 11:46 AM

Jul 2015

"He told the Guardian that "there was no flashlight used to choke anybody -- that's false." "
Soon as I read that I though "uh huh then if it wasnt a flashlight that was used the next closest thing police have are their nightsticks so he probably used that and the police chief is just playing word games to try and buy time probably so they can find a way out of this for the cop.

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