• Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Killing isn’t a legal designation. You can factually say that someone killed a another person without calling what they did murder or manslaughter.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I was thinking along the same lines… but I don’t think I’d want anyone to be able to publicly label me a killer if it hasn’t been proven yet that I actually killed a person. Maybe there was a second person who actually did it and bailed before the cops showed up and this person was wrong place, wrong time. Not even saying that’s the case in this example (probably isn’t), but we still need to treat it the same as any other.

      Manslaughter hasn’t been proven yet either; until they’re convicted, it’s all “alleged.”