To: Mariner
” the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in a news release. “At one point, an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman."
An officer fired their weapon? Am I to surmise that more than one officer showed up but they only had one weapon? Or are the people issuing news releases grammatically impaired?
9 posted on
07/17/2017 8:53:47 AM PDT by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: dblshot
A better trained journalist would have said the officer fired their AK47 assault Glock.
11 posted on
07/17/2017 8:56:49 AM PDT by
MrEdd
(long hours.)
To: dblshot
It is intentional bad grammar related to sex/gender. Becoming more common in the PC world.
14 posted on
07/17/2017 8:57:29 AM PDT by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: dblshot
Or are the people issuing news releases grammatically impaired?
that is really atrocious pronoun usage...everybody knows it should have been ‘an officer fired zir weapon’...
To: dblshot
An officer fired their weapon? Am I to surmise that more than one officer showed up ...
I noticed that too. I believe it's another example of 21st Century "journalism" where the reporter doesn't want to be gender specific, as in "his" weapon, or "her" weapon.
More PC BS.
31 posted on
07/17/2017 9:05:51 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: dblshot
It was a crew served pistol...
39 posted on
07/17/2017 9:11:26 AM PDT by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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