For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine's deadliest mass shooting. Hodgson and Robert Card were both Army reservists.
For 17 years, Sean Hodgson was best friends with the man who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting.
“Not the most credible” implies he had a tendecy to dishonesty. There may be a measure of “the boy who cried wolf.” Maybe they made a decision on where to best use finite resources, something they do every day. When they’re right, it doesn’t make the news.
I don’t know whether it’s that in this case, or straight-up malfeasance. But I don’t think it’s absurd to take into account a person’s history of being unreliable when deciding whether or not to SWAT someone.
Why does bad behavior mean the person should be ignored?
Unless you are just pointing out that people with legal issues tend to be ignored, which is definitely true.
The latter.
“Not the most credible” implies he had a tendecy to dishonesty. There may be a measure of “the boy who cried wolf.” Maybe they made a decision on where to best use finite resources, something they do every day. When they’re right, it doesn’t make the news.
I don’t know whether it’s that in this case, or straight-up malfeasance. But I don’t think it’s absurd to take into account a person’s history of being unreliable when deciding whether or not to SWAT someone.