How Many Ways Can You Avoid Reporting That Cops Killed a Baby?
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Caution in reporting is valuable, but when it’s mainly deployed to protect the inflicters of state violence, you have to ask if it’s really a principle at all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/70907267

“One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was “killed after” a police officer fired at a vehicle, but there’s no verb you could use to connect those two things?

  • s38b35M5English
    8·
    1 month ago

    Ahh, the passive voice doing heavy lifting again.

    • JessicatEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      I’m surprised they didn’t say, “was unalived”.