NorthernLitUp t1_jeay81i wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:16 PM

Reply to comment by phillycheeez in Landlord-tenant officer shoots woman in head during eviction, police say by phillycheeez

People don't get shot in the head for refusing to pay rent or leave a place they're being evicted from. If that's what actually happened, that would be a headline for sure, but the story suggests there was some type of altercation which left the landlord-tenant officer with injuries. The headline seems like a deliberate attempt to stir up anger before anyone knows what actually happened.

CockercombeTuff t1_jeb2qvo wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:44 PM

It is definitely intentionally incendiary, but that's most media including the Inquirer. It wouldn't surprise me if the Inquirer wouldn't blink in rewriting the story to favor the officer under a certain set of circumstances, even if the important known details were entirely the same. That I don't have confidence in them (among many others) writing a dispassionate and just-the-facts news story is what frustrates me about them.