He said there would be an increased police presence at the shopping centre and more patrols over the coming days.
Why? Are they expecting this random kid already in custody to go back and commit more? Did the security get around to stopping it last time? Will the increased presence last forever or just long enough for the public to forget? because it’s clearly not there to stop the person already in custody.
Such a meaningless response to the tragedy at hand.
Yes, it’s all about optics.
Saved you a click; It was Woodgrove in Melton, It wasn’t Highpoint (if it was Highpoint, it wouldn’t be News).
This comment looks familiar…
Sorry, was my tasteless joke similar to those deleted comments? I will happily delete it if you don’t approve.
Nah, but I stole the article off Reddit (although linked to a better source, because fuck 7news), and the top comment on that thread was also “Woodgrove, Melton. Saved you a click”
https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1fo5l9z/comment/loni1r8
Side note: it really irks me that almost every ABC article has “allegedly” somewhere in the title.
I get they’re all paranoid about being sued, but this isn’t alleged, a kid was ACTUALLY stabbed. That can’t be disputed, and you can’t be sued for defamation for claiming that something that actually happened, happened.
For some people it’s “POV:”. For me it’s “allegedly this situation that very obviously happened, happened”.
Not in the title, but “allege” and it’s variants are used eight times in the article.
The headline on the article page is (currently) “Boy, 16, fatally stabbed at shopping centre in Melbourne’s west”, so I don’t know why the share-preview headline has ‘allegedly’
Thanks z! I’ve updated the title
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