• ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    God, passive language in news articles mentioning cops is so beyond parody at this point that I can’t even tell what headlines mean anymore

    cw: animal death

    Headline: “Dogs attack woman, police discharge service weapon”

    The officer discharged their service weapon striking the animals. The dogs died on scene.

    I actually had to look at the article and read that sentence to even tell what they meant by that headline, I was seriously wondering if they just fired in the air or something, I would never use “police discharge service weapon” to refer to cops fatally shooting something lmao