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London Cop Who Shot Dead Unarmed Black Man Charged With Murder (www.vice.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Ha ha very funny. Except this is grammatically correct and not ambiguous. It would work with your joke interpretation if it said "who shot dead, unarmed, black man"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is absolutely ambiguous diction.

“…who shot and killed unarmed black man…” would have been substantially more specific and readable without potential confusion.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"fatally shot" is the same amount of words and less confusing

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