"Shooting death." Can we not say he murdered the homeless man?
Like oh no, the gun shot and this man spontaneously died! Fucking passive voice bullshit.
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Even if you want to stay away from “murder” to avoid libel, you can say he shot someone to death, no?
If the case is at the sentencing phase, the conviction is clearly made by the court already. If the news agency is concerned about libelous statements, that goes out the window once the court’s decision is official. OP is right. This is just pussyfooting passive voice bullshit. This was murder. Call it what it is.
Yup. The article says he was convicted of "second-degree murder and first-degree assault". He is a convicted murderer as determined by a court of law, and truth is an absolute defense to defamation.
Especially since the homeless man was accused of disorderly conduct and the validity of the arrest is not called into question.
But kicking down is the centrist status quo in the US now apparently.
The article updated. He got 16 and 6 years, running concurrently. Near the top end of the guidelines, which lines up with how cops should be sentenced when they abuse their power.
If you have any doubt that it was justified, here is what he did:
King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said Thursday that Nelson escalated the situation with Sarey, failed to wait for backup before confronting him, and that the level of force he used was unreasonable: Nelson repeatedly punched Sarey in the head after grappling with him, shot him once in the upper abdomen and then, as the wounded Sarey reclined on the ground about 7 feet away, Nelson cleared a jammed round out of his gun, glanced at a nearby witness, turned back to Sarey and fired again into Sarey’s forehead.
Dude double tapped a man he was in no danger from, after starting the fight to begin with, all brazenly in front of a witness. If he would do something that illegal in front of someone, you can imagine what he was doing on his own or only around other cops.