The passive language media uses to describe murder is enraging. As though these "deaths" just befall us. "Officer involved" are not the appropriate words to describe a slaying, an execution, a slaughter, an attack, an assault, an ambush, a murder, a homicide. #blacklivesmatter
"Floyd loses consciousness and later dies" https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1265342048841936901
"A black man died" https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1265288258147270656
"A black man has died" https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1265255771777925120
"A black man said before he died" https://twitter.com/euronews/status/1265333331425665026
"Handcuffed black man dies" https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1265330870443020291
"...following the death of George Floyd..." https://twitter.com/BreakingNews/status/1265374430169088000
"...death of a black man..." https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1265382377897017344
"Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck." https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1265447778622283779
"A black man died in police custody" https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1265309480511836161
"...the death of George Floyd..." https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1265392277028995081
"What we know about George Floyd's death..." https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1265436304118079488
"A black man died" https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1265311586488639490
"...a man who died..." https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1265373405680893952
"...a black man who died..." https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1265372265002209281
"...black man who later died..." https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1265370026351132672
I'm so angry.
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