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This is awful, but for once, god damnit, they used the active voice.

@sfleetucker Sorry, that's still passive voice with implied "was" to save space. Active voice would say: Corrupt Cop Murdered Innocent Black Woman.

@WordNerd usually it’s “shots were fired and a bullet struck”. This time it s police killed.

@sfleetucker Sonya is the subject of the sentence. Police is the object of a removable clause within the sentence. To make it active voice, police would have to be the subject of the sentence. This headline does not say police (subject) killed (verb).

@WordNerd @sfleetucker

Sadly, we can only imagine a headline like that. At least it wasn't an "officer-involved shooting". 🤷

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