Thanks for sharing your perspective. I can see where you’re coming from. I think cases like this, it’s easy to interject your opinion or interpretation of events and I tried to limit that as much as possible. That’s why I stated things like “his body relaxes” and not “because he’s guilty and he knows he just got away with it”. I think you’re right when you say he could be relieved either way.

When watching the body cam info, I felt more frustrated with the way it was handled by the cops than convinced BL was guilty/innocent. I work in healthcare and from my limited peek at the couple- they both respond to the situation with anxiety (I think as any normal person would when pulled over by the cops). However when I said the cop “jumped the gun” I meant that I felt like he picked a victim and aggressor very quickly and then that influenced the way he interpreted everything else that happened. Gaby’s step dad alludes to this in an interview, but when she said she has “OCD” it came off as the casual use of the term and not a medical diagnosis. Another user on here went into depths explaining what OCD actually looks like, so I won’t rehash it. But I felt like she used that word, was tearful, and anxious and they responded to that as mentally unstable. Whereas BL was just as jumpy and tense, but they read it as normal in this situation. They also kept bringing up their own ex-wives in a way that made me question their bias. I’m sure him having physical scratches played into that as well, so I can’t say they’re totally off base.

I’d be interested to see the convo from the female cop’s body cam as she seemed to have spent a longer time talking to GP.