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/70907328

“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?

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    I’ve been on facebook, tons of people blaming them other and making up bullshit about her using the baby as a shield… It’s disgusting, it’s obvious what’s going on. Black lives are failing to matter to police and their enablers.