Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

Prosecutors have charged a Metropolitan Police officer with murder after he shot rapper Chris Kaba in London last year.

  • reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz
    192·
    10 months ago

    The headline is technically grammatically correct but ambiguous. “…shot and killed unarmed black man” would have been better. If you absolutely need to stick to word/character count, “shot unarmed black man dead” would be less ambiguous and more in keeping with how people actually use “shot dead”. I’ve watched a lot of westerns and I can think of quite a few where someone says “I shot him dead” but not one where someone says “I shot dead him”.

    • stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      10 months ago

      The US and the UK have different figures of speech and idioms. People in the UK don’t usually sound like cowboys.

      • reverendsteveii@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        10 months ago

        I’d love to see an example of “I shot dead him”. I’m not trying to be defensive, I’d really enjoy seeing it. Dialects fascinate me.

        • stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          10 months ago

          Well, it’s an expression that only comes up in the third person, not the first person. You’d see “Tim shot dead Eric”. I think if they’d say anything like that in the UK, it would just be “I shot him”.