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I don't recall seeing one.
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"I don't recall ..." can save's one bacon in today's world. Video recordings (like internet ramblings
) can be used for all the wrong reasons ... such as to impugn one's veracity. Outside of one's home (with the curtains drawn), anything else seems fair game to the paparazzo wanna-bes with their smartphones and GoPros, or 'normal' and ubiquitous surveillance cameras.
"Recall" is turning out to be one's only unassailable vestige of privacy, especially in interactions with the law enforcement or judicial systems. Politicians have avoided accountability for their misdeeds, because of deficient/insufficient recall ... whether real or fabricated. I presume the tack is taught in freshman Political "Science" classes, it's use is so widespread and ingrained.
If not already present, this phrase should join the other phrases one constantly practices ... such as for 'that' dreaded 911 call, which could result from EDC. * Think of it as a yoga mantra. I believe practicing such phrasing helps ensure one doesn't utter something regrettable ... i.e., because some Monday-morning-quarterback tries to twist your original intent:
- I just shot someone who was trying to murder me ...
- I'm agitated now, and can't respond ...
- I said, I'm agitated right now, and will be happy to discuss specifics with you later when my counsel is present.
- I am agitated, and don't recall ...
- Tell the officers I am wearing ...
I am open for suggestions about these or other phrases ..
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* Remember, 911 dispatchers may or may not pass on comments to responding officers. But your comments will always be part of "the record," and will likely be scrutinized to see if they can be used/abused to meet the goals of someone else ... should a scrote be shot by someone who protected their own life with lethal force. Information that was solicited from George Zimmerman, and then subsequently abused to pillory him, should never have been provided by the obviously agitated Zimmerman. It's not like an APB/BOLO needed to be transmitted for Trayvon Martin ... who was laying on the ground nearby.