Language: "But even some of those in favor of the community defense efforts were on edge that protesters could go too far. Residents said they were worried that with the number of agents patrolling the area and heightened tensions, weapons will be fired, deliberately or by accident."
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Who should we really worry about going too far? Is that what residents are really saying? The passive tense "weapons will be fired" avoids who's wielding and firing those weapons and who murdered a local less than a week ago.
Jan 13, 2026 22:32The piece is overall pretty good, but this bothsidesism meets waffledom is why the NYT makes so many of our heads explode. It's an incoherent paragraph; I wonder if editorial rewrote something to create this fuzziness about who what where why when.
