Tan 8 = Ten 8…police 10 signal for in-service . Used mostly when checking in for duty or comfirming someone else is.
Black = Death 6+4+7 = 17 = Q+
In-service in the sand (Middle East) with 17 dark. Pretty much an operational comm of the worst kind.
Of course it's both. He thinks he's being cute and pulling a page from HRC claiming ignorance. There's an old saying for the lawyered up cute ones… "You might be the rap, but you won't beat the ride.'' He still needs to go to jail sewer crawl for 10 miles to deal with it for the next several years.
Kash: Do the popo thing. If you've got PC on this clown for something else, get him indicted and held on that while this public safety issue gets sorted. The risks are too high. This is global now. Billions deserve a future.
Maybe he's trying to get into witness protection. Just like conwise homeless will order a huge meal, eat it, not pay and just wait to get picked up and returned to the security and free meals of the lock up. Kinda doubt it here, but it's a possibility. If he ran and hid, his pursuers would know he's turncoat, this way he can roll hard until they're locked up and find out in court.
It's a colloquialism, with broad understanding. Cops in CA are more likely to use 187 for murder since that's the penal section chapter number for murder in CA. Elsewhere, different terms, to include 86 and many, many others are used to mean homicide.
You conflated things. I said it's used, but never said it was codified anywhere.