A driver with an expired license, who is legally blind, hits and kills a pedestrian in a crosswalk. And prosecutors only charged him with a misdemeanor:
An Oakland man who said he is legally blind has been arrested and charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with a crash in Berkeley that killed a 98-year-old man, authorities said Thursday. Robert Jack Gilchrist, 56, was also charged by Alameda County prosecutors with driving without a valid license at the time of the April crash that killed Joseph Luft.
About 12:20 p.m. on April 4, Luft was on his daily walk and heading east in a crosswalk on Bancroft Way when he was hit by Gilchrist’s car as it traveled north on Sacramento Street, authorities said. The impact knocked Luft 40 feet, police said. Luft was conscious and able to speak with responding officers, but died at a hospital that evening.
If the DMV already determined he can’t safely drive, then the penalty needs to be a felony. This was no accident.
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The passive voice is particularly annoying: “when he was hit by Gilchrist’s car”. No, he was killed by Gilchrist.
This is the same kind of crap feminists complain about when e.g. a spousal rape case is reported as “domestic troubles”. They use the passive voice to make it sound like it was natural, inevitable.
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Jean-François, that’s still passive voice (which I don’t find anything wrong with). Active would be “…when Gilchrist (‘s car) hit him.”
Right, I am misusing the grammatical term “passive voice”. I should have said something more like “agentless wording”? E.g. word choices that remove the agency of the perpetrator.