Police arrest man for pointing a banana at them

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last updated 8 January 2015

Police in Colorado arrested a man this week, saying they feared for their lives because he pointed a yellow weapon at them:

"I immediately ducked in my patrol car and accelerated continuing northbound, fearing that it was a weapon," [one officer] wrote in the affidavit, which lists [the two cops] as victims. "Based on training and experience, I have seen handguns in many shapes and colors and perceived this to be a handgun." [The Daily Sentinel]

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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