Protests erupt in Senatobia after one-year-old Kohen Wiley killed after police responded to report of shoplifting

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago

Leave as in paid vacation funded by the tax payers who will also fund his legal defense?

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    [–] 107 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Seen elsewhere: you get more paid time off for killing children in this country than you do for giving birth to them

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Even if they were stealing diapers that does not justify fucken deadly force. Its a box of fucken diapers. Let them take it. This poor baby had his life stolen for no reason.

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  • [–] 88 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Murdering. The offer murdered the baby while attempting to murder other black people in cold blood. I fucking hate seeing this passive voice used for fucking racist murderer cops.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't think that's "passive voice", it's intentionally choosing a softer word, (though even that may be more of a liability one. Same concept as the media using every word but "children" to describe people killed in Palestine.

    Passive voice would be.

    "A baby in a car was shot while police were responding to a shoplifting report".

    Or if they wanted to dial it up to 100.

    A male black baby was involved in a shooting with police responding to a shoplifting report.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    You are correct. They said he killed the baby. Active voice. Accurate. Not softening the blow very much, arguably a little, but it's also very easy to argue that their word choice is justified in the pursuit of covering facts.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Just in case someone here didn't get the memo: the American corporate news journalistic establishment failed catastrophically in 2016. Everything since then has been wallpaper.

    (And yes those of you particularly fussy about this, it was that way for many decades previous, but it hadn't resulted in an obvious literal russian asset being placed in the presidency before.)

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago

    It's always fun if you play madlibs with the title and see if there should be more or less outrage:

    Mississippi day care worker put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

    Mississippi Walmart Worker put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

    Mississippi mass child murderer put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    Most of the gunshots were on the passenger side, where the baby was. Stopping the car was never a consideration.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    He's been put on leave? Well that'll teach him.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Needs to be consequences severe enough to make others consider their own actions.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Paid leave I’m sure

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    I don't know for a fact but there's a non-zero chance they can't just jail him or fire him immediately because of the fascist police union, the only union that shouldn't have any power.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Maybe keep them on to shoot innocent dogs?

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