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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
"Not to do it in the first place" is a totally fine, normal, and acceptable response in science fiction where you can go back in time and erase an event. Barring that, in the real world, we use apologies (among other things) to make amends and attempt to correct our wrongs. Again: what actual solution (attainable in real life) would you like to see here? Because it seems like you're more concerned about the grinding of your axe than a real life resolution to this issue.
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PepsiFree, you're aware she let this go on for over a month right? It was no longer a heat of the moment situation where she would go back in time and reverse things. Every day for a month, she was actively avoiding police contact. She was avoiding accepting responsibility, she was hurting this person's reputation. For a month. She was letting people believe this officer was pulling over black people and shouting, screaming, harassing and demeaning them for the entirety of the stop because he was a racist even though she knew there was video evidence that could easily show what actually happened.
Police had alluded to exploring options to have the video released a month ago. Maybe the threat of having it sent to media was enough for her to compromise and post a retraction. But this was a carefully worded retraction more than an apology. She pretty much says "I thought that actually happened but of course there's video evidence that completely destroys my narrative, so in that case even though I thought this happened, it didn't."
In any case, this started because someone posted how great a person she was. I took issue with that because I don't think people who stoop so low deserve to be recognized as such.