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

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

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    175·
    1 year ago

    This is absolutely ambiguous diction.

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

    • Strykker@programming.dev
      21·
      1 year ago

      Except “shot and killed” it self can be ambiguous. What did he kill them with? Did he shoot him then kill him with a knife?

      Shot dead, means the shooting is what killed the man.

    • Polar
      38·
      1 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.

      • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
        81·
        1 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)

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        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”.