Cops were told twice that he was hitting her but denied that in their report.
In the police report of the traffic stop some minutes later, a responding officer initially wrote that he believed “it was reported the male had been observed to have assaulted the female,” but later wrote that “no one reported that the male struck the female.”
The officer in charge in Moab might have been biased based on him telling Brian (while driving him to the hotel at the end of the video) that he too had a wife who suffered from anxiety attacks. He seemed to be relating to Brian’s situation and perhaps taking his side partly due to this.
He believed it was reported to dispatch that the male was assaulting the female.
After speaking to Brain and Gabby no one reported the male struck the female.
I guess the only thing I can say is on scene observations often differ than dispatched information. The cops know this, they live this so they do their own evaluation of the situation.
Information that a male was assaulting a female.
They arrive and speak to the parties.
Only the female admits to striking the male.
The witness wasn’t there to speak to the police.
You are placing to much credence on being Dispatched to a scene vs. being on the scene.
Yes, if Brian was arrested right there Gabby might be alive today.
But the cops can’t arrest people based solely on a 911 call.
Given the way this is turning out, even if Brian was arrested that day, I suspect he would have probably murdered Gabby at some point after he was released.
I say this because what kind of mind can murder someone you love and plan on marrying.
At one point in the video, I’m pretty sure, but I haven’t gone through it all again to check, the policeman asks if anyone can confirm if he actually hit her, as the call originally indicated. And someone said no. Since he denied hitting her, she denied he hit her but admitted she hit him, and he had the scratches and she didn’t have any scratches or bruises, it seems the policeman assumed the caller got it wrong who was hitting who, as sometimes happens in these situations.