Are people actually arguing about grammar in this thread? Wow.
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IT’S REALLY VERY IMPORTANT!!
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No charges were filed or said to be pending against the homeowner.
Kind of surprised by this, even if the cop wasn’t in uniform when he broke in. The cop instinct to protect their own from the consequences of their actions, even when they’re dead, is quite strong.
In effect though, it’s kind of the opposite - whoever put out the statement either didn’t know, or didn’t want to get into, when the cop died (or even how). The weird cop-speak formulation is avoiding specifying if he died immediately on the scene or was taken to a hospital where he was later declared dead. It also avoids stating how he died - he could have been shot, but actually died of some other cause (e.g. a heart attack or an overdose, which is why they’re floating the idea that he was on drugs - because they know he was).
It’s obfuscatory language being used in a case where if he’d been simply shot and immediately killed, wouldn’t be necessary. (Of course, cops being cops, that in itself doesn’t mean anything - obfuscation is second nature.)
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Of course; anything to distract from the actual issue at hand.
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New details based on a video that was just released:
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Every time…
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Off-topic, but obligatory…
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Cop talk predates chatGPT. But officious rhetoric is as old as time.
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From the article that @Otherbrother linked:
“Concerned for his safety and that of his wife, whom he knew just left for work but thought could still be at the residence, the homeowner armed himself and approached the front door,” the sheriff’s office said.
The homeowner then tried to communicate with Horton, asking if he could help, before Horton forcibly rushed inside, knocking the homeowner to the ground after he slightly cracked the door trying to see what was going on, according to the sheriff’s office.
“Fearing for his life and in defense of his home, the homeowner discharged a single round from his firearm, fatally wounding Horton inside his home,” the sheriff’s office said.
Jesus Christ, don’t even crack open the door if you’re going to be so trigger happy. Nobody needed to die here.
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Every time I hear that American cop-speak, it reminds me of Dogberry in Much Ado. Clearly this archetype already existed in Elizabethan times.
Marry, sir, they have committed false report;
moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.
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“At this time the individiual is deceased”
Classic cop-speak. Why do they teach them to talk like this?
Perhaps they do not want to rule out the possibility that he will rise from the dead?
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You are very much not the first person to bring that up.
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Cop speak? Or is this reporter speak? “At this time”–as in this is what is currently believed to be true. CYA against information being discovered to be wrong.
From the other article it’s pretty clear something was wrong upstairs. And the homeowner was an idiot to open a door that could be used for entry. (I won’t say opening a door is always wrong–because some people have two layers. Our front door hasn’t been locked in years–but the security door outside it is locked. I can talk to people through it, though.)
whaaat ?? Off duty cop was tryin to get some extra income jewels money guns drugs cash coins…
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It is a quote attributed to the cop.
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