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mces97 t1_iujd3nv wrote

Reply to comment by N8CCRG in Then-officer who fatally shot Patrick Lyoya will stand trial for the killing by 5xad0w

Can you explain what the difference is? Serious question.

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N8CCRG t1_iujf4ov wrote

"Ex-officer" is ambiguous. Were they a former officer, who then committed a crime, or did they commit the crime as an officer, and afterwards get fired.

In addition to being ambiguous, news standards did not use the "ex-" modifier regularly. They used it for certain groups like (ex-)officers and (ex-)military who committed an act while in that role, and were later fired, but not for other groups like, say, truckdrivers. In other words, even if a truckdriver was later fired, the headlines would still refer to them as "truck driver who did X" and not "ex-truck driver."

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mces97 t1_iujf9fb wrote

Thank you for the clarification. 🙏

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tom90640 t1_iujepep wrote

He was an officer "then", he is an "ex-officer" now.

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