dahJo said:
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I read one commentator that said the LE was using a good tactic by BROing him--If he had been very authoritarian, BL might have been more careful in what he said, more defensive. The BRO tactic might have been to get more information from him. I don't know if I buy that, but it's another explanation.
IMO it is a sometimes used police tactic. I know a mother and adult daughter who had some kind of incident. I don’t remember which one but one of them said they had a fistfight and one of them called the police. What I do remember is that a female cop started telling one of them that when she was younger, she too had had a fistfight with her mother.
I remember when I heard about it I thought that was an odd thing for a police officer to share. Thinking about it now, it seems
like it was a ploy to get the mother or daughter to spill the beans about who was really fighting with whom.
It’s possible IMO that this was the motivation for the officer to “share” with Brian that he had a “toxic ex-wife.” It may be entirely fictional and designed to get Brian to say “oh I know what you mean, the reason I hit my girlfriend is because..”
MOO