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Re:A Critical Problem – This photo gives me the creeps by cratermoon on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @01:17PM (#37065794)
> to use the same style with shootings would be risible e.g. "multiple bullets hit man resisting arrest".

Except that media use a different, equally bad construction. The so-called "cop-speak". <https://fair.org/home/copspeak-7-ways-journalists-use-police...>

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Re:A Critical Problem – This photo gives me the creeps by denton-scratch on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:29AM (#37075917)
> Suspect/subject

Those aren't the same. A suspect is someone who has been charged, or who is being questioned under caution, because he might be charged. The example given was of a man arrested for possessing a knife - therefore a suspect - who was shot by police. Since a policeman shooting a civilian isn't usually charged or cautioned on the spot, it's not surprising that there is no suspect in the shooting case.

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Re:A Critical Problem – This photo gives me the creeps by cratermoon on Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:47PM (#37078522)
You left out the part that said, "an arrest prosecutors later deemed “illegal”". He wasn't a suspect, he was profiled and murdered by the cops.
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