| He sought to join the protestors He went to "check out", and for a fraction of that time "talk with" the protestors, by the words you are quoting. To "join the protestors" (implying some sort of direct participation) would of course be something entirely different, and in no way grounded in the description we have. It doesn't matter 4 hours v. 4 min An impartial observer of the situation would most likely strongly disagree with that take. In any case it certainly doesn't sound (from the description we have) that the net duration was anywhere near the former value. More likely it was around 20 min max. So far we only have this one person's recollection of the events, where he has a huge bias towards trying to minimize his involvement. Could be, who knows. But from the weird semantic distortions you're attempting to lay over the words we do have from this guy -- it seems you're basically assuming he must be guilty of something awful, and therefore to be lying in some major way, also. |
He is. He is guilty of doing something his employer didn't like and they fired him for it.