i'm sorry i played the phrase "according to the police report" so subtly, only putting it in italics (which will be ignored in some applications some people use to read email, and which might have been read as an assertion of the report's authority) when i should have added some sarcastic parenthetical to make it clear where i stood. it might have avoided what seems to me to be a misunderstanding.
if you have a problem with me past that, then i am missing it.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:
> At 09:49 AM 7/28/2009, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
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> yep. it does. other people i am arguing with do not seem to think this
>> discrepancy is significant. i think it is.
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> How could it not be? The police report is what gets things started. It's
> what turns an incident or encounter into a case. And police reports are
> reconstructed narratives produced after the fact. Cops are essentially
> writing a kind of crime fiction day in and day out. Only rarely are they
> given the kind of read Badiou gets here. When they are it's common to find
> discrepancies as in the Gates case.
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