Man mistaken for drug dealer at Brooklyn liquor store told police 'I'm not resisting': CBS ⁠48%

By Colin Mixson⁠63%

4/15/2026, 6:40:57 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Representativeness Heuristic, Quote-first Misdirection, and Negativity Bias, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 19.7% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 227 faulty-reasoning hits from 304 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠48% (11,540 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 52.70% of the article peer group.

A man mistaken by police for a drug dealer at a Brooklyn liquor store told officers, “I'm not resisting,” moments before they beat him and dragged him across a floor strewn with broken glass, according to a CBS report. 
Timothy Brown, who had gone into the BK Wine Deport in Boerum Hill to grab a bottle of wine after work, said he was complying with officers when they attacked him. 
“He said, ‘You're under arrest,'” Brown told CBS. 
“I remember being grabbed and shoved and he said, ‘Don't resist.' 
And I say, ‘I'm not resisting.'” 
“They slammed me up against the glass, you know, repeatedly hitting me in the temple, in my head, you know? 
You see my eye's black,” Brown added. 
The pair of Brooklyn North narcotics detectives involved in the clash thought the man matched the description of someone who had just made a drug sale, a police source said. 
He was wearing similar clothes as the suspect, but had no drugs on him when he was arrested in the store on Hoyt St. near Baltic St., the source said. 
“Could you look at a video of your child being dragged like that?” 
Brown's mother, Donna Brown, told CBS. 
“It's disgusting. 
It really is. 
It's disgusting. 
And they do it all the time, to our Black and Brown people, all the time.” 
Brown was issued a desk appearance ticket by cops for resisting arrest and obstruction of government administration, officials said. 
A spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney announced they would be declining to prosecute those charges. 
The two officers involved in Brown's arrest were placed on modified duty and stripped of their guns and badges; the incident is being investigated by the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 19.7%Colin Mixson: 2.8%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Confirmation Bias19.7%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 4.8%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 19.7%Colin Mixson: 1.2%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic19.7%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 1.0%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 8.3%newyorkdailynews: 6.1%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.9%newyorkdailynews: 2.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.6%Colin Mixson: 12.9%newyorkdailynews: 9.8%Negativity Bias7.6%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.4%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.8%newyorkdailynews: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.1%newyorkdailynews: 1.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 5.3%Colin Mixson: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.4%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.2%newyorkdailynews: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 4.2%newyorkdailynews: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 5.3%Colin Mixson: 3.1%newyorkdailynews: 4.1%Hasty Generalization5.3%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.5%newyorkdailynews: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 4.3%Colin Mixson: 10.3%newyorkdailynews: 7.4%Appeal to Emotion4.3%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 2.1%newyorkdailynews: 3.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.4%newyorkdailynews: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.1%newyorkdailynews: 2.6%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 1.8%newyorkdailynews: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.0%newyorkdailynews: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.1%newyorkdailynews: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 3.5%newyorkdailynews: 2.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 12.8%Colin Mixson: 1.3%newyorkdailynews: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection12.8%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 4.8%newyorkdailynews: 6.7%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.6%newyorkdailynews: 3.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.8%newyorkdailynews: 0.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.2%newyorkdailynews: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Colin Mixson: 0.3%newyorkdailynews: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

304 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers46%attributed speech163writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 39 words • 100.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 31 words • 0.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 8 words • 0.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 11 words • 0.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 6 words • 0.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 20 words • 0.0% coverageTimothy Brown • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 13 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 6 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 3 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 2 words • 0.0% coverageDonna Brown • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageBrooklyn District Attorney • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Donna Brown

86%flagged-word coverage
42 attributed words30% of attributed speech61% writer coverage
0%12.5%25.0%Quote-first Misdirection-23.9 ptsWriter: 23.9%Donna Brown: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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