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London Cop Who Shot Dead Unarmed Black Man Charged With Murder (www.vice.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Quick tip - if the majority of people who read something find it ambiguous, it is. Plain and simple - especially for languages like English that don't have a central authority for setting language rules.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

We can't help it if the US doesn't teach it's population proper English, take it up with your education system.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Quick tip - People with a poor grasp of un-simplified English are not the majority

[–] Lazylazycat 5 points 1 year ago

It's written by a British person in OG English. This phrase isn't unambiguous here and it took me a sec to figure out why people were confused. It's just a syntax difference but surely you can figure it out with context clues, just like I did with your interpretation.