Reply #90: Here is a difference

[jbnow]

It's not the words, it's the situation
"tone of his voice"
A cop has authority to arrest you. If he orders you out of your home in curt tomes it is sensible to assume you could be in trouble even if you have done nothing wrong

"the way he said it"
The guy might have said it in a rude or insulting way but the cop isn't saying he was being threatened or the guy was armed. He had nothing to fear. So he felt the guy was disrespectful? Arrest might be a stupid response.

So as far as projection- "when a person's personal attributes, thoughts, and/or emotions are ascribed onto another"

Thinking "I'm in some danger. he might arrest me" would be a projection of "I am a danger to him and might arrest him"
Thinking "he is being disrespectful" would be a projection of "I don't respect this guy"

Right? I guess there are other ways to interpret it...like if the professor always thought "Cops are a danger to me" and thus went to "He is a danger to me".

Hey they say there are tapes of this. The cops say it will help their case if they are released. Of course. But if they are I guess we'd hear whose interpretation of the other makes more sense...
though it's likely people will hear things differently.
But the cops said he was yelling and causing a big disturbance, gathering a crowd (like all the cop cars wouldn't draw a crowd) He says impossible, he was recovering from an illness and his voice was weak.
Hope tapes are released