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.

“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?

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      2 days ago

      Could you imagine? Going about your day, out with your baby, running errands, go out and buy some diapers, put them in the trunk… strapped the baby into the car seat and start driving off. The two of you rocking out to Baby Beluga. You pull out of the parking spot and then YOUR KID IS SUDDENLY MURDERED out of nowhere by a crazy man with a gun hiding behind a badge.

      Swim so wild 😢 swim so free 😢

    • Dzheyk@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure I’ve said something like this before but…get me the fuck off this timeline. I don’t even want that cop or those cops to face justice in court…that level of bullshit deserves some good ol fashion justice by a mob of local community members.