Professional Journalists and Their Misleading Headlines

If all read is the headline you would think that cops are eeeeevil. But of course the headline actually lies. Grandmother Shot And Killed In Tampa By Hillsborough Deputy After Domestic Dispute

Lies of omission are still lies.

Yes she was a grandmother. And yes she was shot by police. That much is true. She was also the suspect in a domestic violence "incident," and she pointed a loaded gun at police.

But stating any of that in the form of a headline wouldn't paint the cops as bastards.

Oh, and she apparently shot her own daughter, and possibly drugged her.

I should categorize this as self-defense, but I will hold off. I usually only use that for non-police related shootings. But if this isn't clearly self-defense - point a gun at someone and expect to get shot in return - I don't know what is.

The second team cleared the rest of the house, locating the suspect barricaded in a locked back room. Deputies made contact with the locked room and issued multiple commands for the suspect to open the door and make herself known.

When deputies breached the door, they found the grandmother armed with a firearm in her right hand. Deputies issued multiple commands to drop the firearm. “She raises the firearm and our Deputy fires and neutralizes a threat,” Chief Deputy Maurer reported.

So no, the cops can't sue over the headline being defamatory, but the "professional journalist" who came up with that headline should ask themselves, "Why is it that trust in the media is at an all time low?"