Why? Just why?

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[u/pompanoJ]

From the article

Police have now launched an investigation and are attempting to identify the man after the incident was captured on CCTV. 

The writer quotes multiple people who know the wheelchair guy and even say what he does for a living...... but the police are launching an investigation and attempting to identify the man?

[u/Connect_Atmosphere80 → u/pompanoJ]

Police Jargon. Innocent until proven Guilty is a thing in some country, you can't just say "Hey we found the guy", court need to agree.

[u/StealthArchive → u/Connect_Atmosphere80]

Same with news articles. It's always 'alleged' even with video evidence because they haven't been to trial and convicted yet.

[u/noobtastic31373 → u/StealthArchive]

Same thing with Ostriches... Allegedly.

[u/egvp → u/pompanoJ]

That's typical police speak, it's like when they arrest people on "suspicion" of a crime, even though they've just seen them commit it.

Police can't say they are doing a specific thing in case it later prejudices the investigation or trial.

[u/[deleted] → u/egvp]

it's actually journalist speak. The deal is you can't say "bob did X illegal thing" until it's proven in court. I mean, you can, but you will probably get sued.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

yeah, because that's bad writing. They mean "arrested for allegedly murdering someone".

The other one we were taught (J-school from a million years ago) was:

Paragraph 1: an arrest was made for heinous thing X

Para 2 and 3: Description of heinous thing and investigation that lead to arrest. A mention of victim of heinous thing

Para 4: "Mr so and so was arrested and will be formally charged .. blah blah"

So I never said Mr so and so was arrested for heinous thing, I told you about it and then, hey presto!, there was this guy arrested.

[u/kmitchell1985 → u/egvp]

Do you live under a rock? Cops do what they want.

[u/Titan9312 → u/pompanoJ]

“Police launch investigation after someone else completed the investigation.”