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To: flaglady47

Does anyone know why the writer/Business Insider keeps referring to Omer Matem as the “suspected shooter” instead of “the shooter” or “dead shooter”?

I know about the legal use of the word “suspected”, “reported”, “alleged” etc. but they had not been adjudicated as the actual person who did something (usually a crime).

With selfies and phone calls etc from Matem literally bragging about what he was doing, does there have to be a legal ruling that he was the shooter, whether he is dead or alive?

The fact that the police killed him in a gun battle is a good hint that he was the only shooter ( plus gunpowder residue on his hands and clothes; weapons in his possession or next to him while other dead had none; weapons used registered to him; fingerprints on weapons and bullets; multiple eye-witness accounts; maybe even videos/photos of him in action, etc).

Just asking because I’ve see the word “suspected” used even when the perp is captured alive with weapons in their hands at the scene of a crime. Suspect it is an old legal protection term, now outdated.


23 posted on 06/13/2016 6:32:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

The use of “alleged” in news stories is just a reflex, without any regard to sense.

You will see stories in which it is written that, “The alleged bank robber then allegedly told the alleged patrons to get on the floor, before allegedly fleeing with an alleged $50,000.”

Well, almost.

You will OFTEN see “...was charged by police with allegedly killing...” or “...is accused of allegedly...”


68 posted on 06/13/2016 7:58:53 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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