"Several stories published by our partners focused on racial harassment on public transportation, using tips to illustrate something officials were also seeing."
The quote above is from a web news article. I just cannot understand the meaning of underlined part let alone its grammar(participle or gerund?). Please help me with this.
seeing is a participle. The underlying structure is 'officials were seeing something'. But like you, I don't clearly understand the meaning of the underlined part.
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seeing is a participle. The underlying structure is 'officials were seeing something'.
But like you, I don't clearly understand the meaning of the underlined part.
You have to read this sentence in context.
Documenting Hate is an attempt to overcome the inadequate data collection on hate crimes and bias incidents in America. We’ve been compiling incident reports from civil-rights groups, as well as news reports, social media and law enforcement records. We’ve also asked people to tell us their personal stories of witnessing or being the victi