The deputy’s gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting the child. It was not clear if the gun was accidentally fired by the deputy.dear God...
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When the officers arrived they were confronted by a Hispanic male armed with a sword. The officers attempted to take the suspect into custody by using a taser but it was ineffective. The suspect then ran towards the officers still armed with the sword and an officer-involved-shooting occurred.
A mom and three kids were killed by an SUV...
The deputy’s gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting the child. It was not clear if the gun was accidentally fired by the deputy.dear God...
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The gun went off.
Two verbs you will hear ONLY in police reports:
Exited
Transported
“The victim was transported to the hospital...”
“He exited the vehicle...”
Drives me crazy!!
This might possibly be an important story, because here we have none other than the Washington Compost coming out against the way stories about police are written, in a way that casts doubt against the police. From one of the most lap-doggingest statist-quo go-go-government mouthpieces. So, either there’s a chink in the armor, or the WP is trying to undercut local police so as to have the Infallible Feds take over.
The media is completely complicit in these wordings, plagiarizing lazily police reports from their public affairs office.
All of this wouldn’t be much more troubling than your typical grammatical ass-covering by other public officials if it weren’t for the fact that (a) we’re talking about people getting shot and killed, and (b) in most cases, the same police agencies engaging in linguistic gymnastics to publicly deflect responsibility for police shootings will inevitably be in charge of investigating the same officers for the same shootings.
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Yep...
Like Holder investigating Obama.
"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!" --Samuel Adams, to John Pitts, 1776
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