The headline is denotatively descriptive of went on.
Connotatively, it is clearly designed to inflame primed minds. Those who "trust" ABCNews hold particular premises within their minds. Premises with considerable emotional value.
Some people are playing dumb in this thread. Not like the George Floyd trial, a matter regarding objectively obvious police abuse, just wrapped up in the same day that this shooting occurred.
When taken in the context of the current news climate, the title is there to trigger the emotional response that this incident is yet another Floyd incident. Systemic racism. White boy cop racist attacking an unarmed black woman. These presumptions are held in the minds of many.
It is a crafty tactic of PR. Put something that is technically unoffensive in isolation, and let the audience infer for themselves...and incorrectly so.
My opinion? Both sides have damning aspects, with the black female teenager being the greater of the transgressors. Shot number 4 by the cop, to me, crosses the line because the grounds for self-defense(in this case defense of another) ended after bullet two or three when the knife assailant began falling. The cop was able to process split seconds to the very last point before a fatal thrust was initiated, thus he still should be able to see when resistance ended in a similar split-second. If that last bullet or even the third one was the killing blow, he needs to be held accountable.
This is a scenario is where the conservative talking heads are closer to the truth, but not quite there because they fully vindicate the cop when he shouldn't be.
