It shows up a lot in crime stories. At best, it's cop-speak, and should go away.
been a while since I went on this rant so: what role does the word 'homeowner' play here? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/06/09/police-shot-homeowner-after-responding-to-wrong-location-authorities-say/?postshare=1341465489955403&tid=ss_tw …pic.twitter.com/TBj99RppTR
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At worst, it's reinforcing some ridiculous notion that owning a home is slang for being a certain kind of better more sympathetic person.
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even so, the job or reporters and editors is to excise cop speak and use words that matter.
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owning the home or not has absolutely zero bearing on the facts of this story. 'The man,' 'The person in the home' work fine.
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the fact that he owned the property has absolutely no bearing on what happened, and certainly doesn't belong in the lede.
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and a house is private property. Doesn't matter if he's a tenant, an owner or a handyman.
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That's a chilling final sentence.
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seems like there could be 15 more grafs of story right there
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Would have been more work to determine if he was a taxpayer or job creator.
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It's Georgia, so maybe there's shine mind if stand yr ground rules? Which only apply to upstanding homeowners, natch.
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