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With the jury in the trial of police officer Derek Chauvin preparing to render its verdict, the city of Minneapolis is preparing for the worst.
As the New York Times reported, small business owners like Samir Patel are in an impossible situation. After Patel’s friend, a dentist, heard gunshots near his office, he called Patel to say “the contractors who were rebuilding the office he lost in last year’s unrest had fled. He was boarding up, and he told Mr. Patel he should move quickly to protect his own business, a dry-cleaning shop.” The Times noted that Patel “suffered half a million dollars in damage in last year’s civil unrest following the police killing of George Floyd. He had to deplete his savings and retirement accounts just to get his business open again.”
There are many citizens like Patel, whose stories the Times largely avoided telling at the time. But the paper’s continued insistence on using euphemisms like “unrest” for the rioting, looting, theft, and arson that transpired last year, and which protestors are threatening again if a “not guilty” verdict is handed down, should end. In its story, the Times used the words “unrest” and “protest” nine times but used “riot” and “looting” only once each. Likewise, the passive voice is used to describe the Third Precinct police station, “which burned.”
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