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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that Officer Edwards was in plain clothes when he was shot in the arm and chest by a team of three other plainclothes officers who mistakened him for an armed criminal.
Off duty police officer shot in Harlem by fellow police officer 2009
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I am a black female academic, who has been stopped by cops with a spouse, with my son, with black male graduate studens, and, four times, all by myself I have very short hair and am sometimes mistakened for a man.
This Post Is Not About Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s Attempt To Enter His Own Home In Cambridge, MA Tenured Radical 2009
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that Officer Edwards was in plain clothes when he was shot in the arm and chest by a team of three other plainclothes officers who mistakened him for an armed criminal.
Off duty police officer shot in Harlem by fellow police officer 2009
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If Im not mistakened, I also hear that Bill Kristols Weekly Standard magazine is operating at a financial loss as well, but being propped up by one of those wealthy neo-cons.
Think Progress » Townhall.com “Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel” for Michelle Malkin 2005
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Said I'd find myself mistakened when I come to look around.
Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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Said I'd find myself mistakened when I come to look around.
Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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I think a certain person will find that out afore he is six months older, or else I'm mistakened, that's all.
The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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I'm as easy as an old glove, but a glove aint an old shoe to be trod on, and I think a certain person will find that out afore he is six months older, or else I'm mistakened, that's all.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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So if your organization feels that it has found a way to stand out from the other by means of convenience then its mistakened here.
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Pay attention for the grass to sparkle because that means that a shiny pokemon is there!!! (be sure not to be mistakened with the shinin 'and the shakin'!!!)
unknown title 2009
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