‘Their weapons aimed menacingly at the sidewalk’ NYT on Olympics security

In the face of soaring street crime, the state government has deployed a security force of 85,000 in Rio de Janeiro, among them 23,000 soldiers who stand sentinel at busy intersections or cruise the streets in military jeeps, their weapons aimed menacingly at the sidewalk.

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Eugene Volokh comments at The Volokh Conspiracy

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But the aiming of the weapons seems to me pretty unmenacing (if you call it aiming at all).

I don’t mean to make too much of this — glitches happen in articles (mine as much as anybody’s). But this seem to me to be a bit illustrative of the kinds of glitches that sometimes happen when journalists write about guns.

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‘Their weapons aimed menacingly at the sidewalk’ NYT on Olympics security