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From second base, however, Kiké Hernández made a perfect tumbling relay throw to the plate, completing half a front flip to gun down Harris in a momentum-shifting sequence.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2024

As officers backed out of the apartment, Davis, who is Black, can be seen on the video briefly pushing his white partner’s gun down, telling him, “Don’t, don’t, don’t.”

From Washington Times • Apr. 24, 2023

But Greene said that she had a "weird gut instinct" to put her gun down before answering the door.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2022

“The police came and as soon as the police came, he took off all of his army gear, threw the gun down, and laid down and got arrested,” Elmore said.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2022

“All right,” I said as I set my gun down and leaned it against a porch post.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls




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