Sunday, October 23, 2005
Don't cramp their style
BIG NEWS!!! When kids start acting crazy, maybe it's because they're crazy.
"[Some kid] said, 'That's exactly how that kid wound up (being accused of) killing that lady in Lafayette, Calif., this week,'" [ex-probation officer Mike Pritchard] said. "You see, kids are hurting. They get it. They just need our help."
Now, they're quoting someone here. Do they really need to put the disclaimer "being accused of"? Indeed, it says something different. It says that the kid was accused because of the things in the previous paragraph, not that those things led him to kill. It's the difference between "He was black, that's how he wound up killing that lady" and "He was black, that's how he wound up being accused of killing that lady."
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