TipsyTraveler
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Yes, she said he grabbed her face as she was explaining how she got the cut on her face (pictured below on cheek, in line with her mouth). For everything else, with one exception, she was very unsure and wishy-washy with her answers. Is that because she couldn’t remember what happened, didn’t want to admit guilt, or was trying not to get Brian in trouble? We can only guess. Interestingly, the one exception I mentioned where she was confident in her answer was to say she had NOT grabbed the steering wheel and yanked it like Brian had told the officers. (She didn’t know Brian had said this, just that the officer was asking if she had grabbed the wheel.) She said she had punched Brian once in the arm “like, you idiot, we’re getting pulled over.” Privately, the officers discussed this discrepancy in Brian and Gabby’s version of events and concluded Brian was probably lying to cover for Gabby because he didn’t want her to get in trouble for hitting him. Oddly, they never seemed to consider Gabby might have been covering for Brian.In the video the PO asked Gabby if he hit her and she said "I guess", and the PO repeated- he hit you and asked her to show him where. She proceeded to grab her face and say like this.
So what she showed the PO wasn't actually a hit, it was a grab.
I understand that in hindsight because she is dead but that video is not concrete proof that she is the victim in an ongoing abusive relationship. That video is a snippet in their life, it doesn't tell the whole story and there were 2 witnesses and one did not mention seeing him hit her, but he did see them get in the car together. 2 different people saw 2 different things, and she herself doesn't say definitely yes he hit me, who knows what the truth is, could be something in the middle.
I wouldn’t say the witnesses saw two different things as much as one witness was very confident that he saw the man hitting the woman, the other saw a physical struggle but couldn’t tell if they were really fighting or who was the aggressor.
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