Story as
written: “Two inmates who escaped from a Tennessee
jail last week are now dead after allegedly robbing a convenience store on
Monday and leading police on a chase in Wilmington, North Carolina.”
https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=122657
As could be: “Two inmates who escaped
from a Tennessee jail last week are now dead after police say the pair robbed a
convenience store on Monday and then led police on a chase in Wilmington, North
Carolina.”
All these “alleged” killers, robbers and
rapists came about in the 1970s when news organizations got all touchy-feely
about bad guys and how some stories might turn people against criminals before
all the facts about “What caused a high school dropout to go bad?” were known.
News organizations defended their
decisions by saying, “The police say this guy did it, but a jury hasn’t decided
whether he did or not.” Since then, no one commits crimes, arrested people only “allegedly” chopped up a family of five, guilt not proven, even though
police found a bloody axe in the trunk of the “alleged” arrestee’s car.
The same kind of wishy-washy writing
occurred in the 1990s and early 2000s with “gunshot victim” applied to bad guys
perforated by homeowners, following a kick-down of a home door and forcible
entry by the hospitalized career criminal.
Just a little societal history lesson.
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