Less openly opinionated, more clinical and detached.

An officer-adjacent ballistic event resulted in a cessation of vitality in a known drug offender. No further details have been released at this time.

Think about how George Floyd was just ‘a counterfeiting suspect who overdosed on fentanyl’ until we saw the video where they knelt on his neck for minutes after he’s gone limp. The state uses passive, detached, clinical language to create distance between situations and the people responsible for creating them, and the news is an extension of the state.