You will notice that the "thousands of rounds" is in quotation marks. Use of quotation marks tells the reader that the writer is simply passing along what others may have said.
Relying on my memory here, I believe a witness may have been quoted as such in the early aftermath. Regardless it was obviously hyperbole as a modicum of common sense would ascertain.
Anything else?
“You will notice that the “thousands of rounds” is in quotation marks. Use of quotation marks tells the reader that the writer is simply passing along what others may have said.”
An example of how they misrepresent the facts inorder to generate clicks. They put the quotation marks around their misleading excerption to make it look authentic.. DUH. Here is their headline. It clearly says 14 officers fired thousands and killed nine. Speaks for itself.
Waco “Twin Peaks” Shooting Updates: 14 Police Officers Fired “thousands of rounds” on 200 Bikers Killing 9, Wounding 18 –
“Relying on my memory here, I believe a witness may have been quoted as such in the early aftermath. Regardless it was obviously hyperbole as a modicum of common sense would ascertain.”
Memory check! If you dig into the link they provided you will find that they are sourcing the lawsuit by Don Carlos restaurant which says (paraphrased) bikers and police fire thousands of shots. Pure lawyer hyperbole but notice how CTH leaves out ‘bikers’.
” Use of quotation marks tells the reader that the writer is simply passing along what others may have said. “
Use of excerpted quotation marks leads the reader to believe that one is passing along correct information when in fact they have deliberately passed alone INCORRECT and misleading information.
Happens here on FR all the time.