I never want to see the words “officer-involved-shooting” again. Editors need to stop instituting these non-phrases as a part of their journalistic guidelines. It always means “a police officer shot a person.” It was invented by the LAPD as a means to manage public relations after the 1979 murder of Eula Mae Love by police officers. It is passive and confusing wording, and more than that, serves to obfuscate the violence created by police officers and mobilizes media to excuse police brutality.
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