NBC News100%

California officer shoots colleague in ‘horseplay’ incident 82%

6/11/2026, 5:52:27 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 47.2% saturation with 101 hits. Analysis detected 824 faulty-reasoning hits from 214 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73.6% and a BS Rank of 82% (4,022 of 22,224 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 81.90% of the video peer group.

It happens in a flash. A moment of careless levity quickly taking a turn. 
Newly released dash cam video shows Pasadena police joking around during an evening shift change in September when suddenly one pulls his departmentisssued 
firearm in a quick draw, appearing to aim it at the driver. Then a bang, gun smoke, cracked glass. The driver accidentally fires through the windshield, wounding a colleague. 
Officer down, but far from the line of duty. The shooting resulted from officers engaged in unsafe and out of policy horseplay involving loaded firearms. 
>> In a video statement, Pasadena Police Chief Gene Harris says the officer was seriously injured but recovered and that disciplinary measures were taken. 
>> Horse play andor failure to adhere to safety rules and standards of professional conduct will not be tolerated. 
>> And tonight, the city telling NBC News the officer in the car was relieved of his position and is no longer with the department. 
The police chief saying the incident is still under criminal investigation, but the district attorney's office telling NBC News they have yet to receive the case. 
While the police department reckons with an embarrassing moment that defies policy and ignores safety. 
and ignores safety. Steve Patterson, NBC News. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 36.4%NBC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic36.4%This article: 6.5%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic6.5%This article: 18.7%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias18.7%This article: 13.6%NBC News: 1.8%Overconfidence Bias13.6%This article: 44.4%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect44.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 8.9%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias8.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 11.2%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias11.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 37.4%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias37.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 18.7%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error18.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 11.7%NBC News: 1.4%Recency Bias11.7%This article: 10.7%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect10.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 47.2%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority47.2%This article: 8.9%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma8.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 11.7%NBC News: 3.2%Hasty Generalization11.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 23.8%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion23.8%This article: 7.0%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question7.0%This article: 18.2%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)18.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 10.7%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal10.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 39.3%NBC News: 1.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)39.3%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

214 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers35%attributed speech139writer words
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Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageChief Gene Harris • 24 words • 0.0% coveragePasadena Police • 19 words • 0.0% coverageNBC News • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageSteve Patterson • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
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Pasadena Police

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words25% of attributed speech100% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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