For evading a $2.90 subway fare…

  • NaibofTabr
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    1 day ago

    OK… It is in the very first sentence of the article.

    The other part they didn’t include in the headline is that the fare evader pulled a knife when the police stopped him. This is also in the first sentence of the article.

    • ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      OK… It is in the very first sentence of the article.

      No it isn’t. The first sentence is “New York police have defended their actions after a bystander was shot in the head as two officers tackled a fare-evader armed with a knife in a busy subway station”. Nowhere there does it specify that the police were the ones that did the shooting.

      Edit: The article seems to have been updated since my initial comment, the opening sentence now reads “Protesters in New York have demanded accountability after police fired at a suspected fare-evader in a busy subway station, hitting a bystander in the head”. However, the headline is also different, and is about protests, so I wonder if the whole article has been replaced.

    • forrgott@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      So, what’s your point?

      Any of this change the innocence of the person they shot in the head??