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Retired SWAT commander acquitted after fatally shooting man in movie theater fight over phone

Feb 27, 2022 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -42% Medium Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    -52% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : He said Reeves made the decision to shoot based on his nearly 30 years in law enforcement and hours of training on the justifiable use of deadly force.
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*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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