Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

  • Polar
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    -51 year ago

    In school you learn to keep titles short. You added a lot of filler words that can ruin the headline on apps that cut them off, or printed media.

    Shot dead is correct.

    • @DarkDreamer13
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      1 year ago

      “fatally shot” is the same amount of words and less confusing

    • nudny ekscentryk
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      71 year ago

      “shot dead” is a phrasel verb, therefore it can (I would argue in this particular context it should) be split:

      shot (whom?) dead.

      I shot him dead

      He shot his wife dead

      Cop shot unarmed black man dead (including press-specific omitting of articles because English is stupid)

    • @[email protected]
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      And yet, we wouldn’t be having this discussion if the wording was actually unambiguous.

      I removed one word and added two. That’s not “a lot of filler words”.