A man was shot dead by police Saturday night. TVA says police opened fire on an armed man in a rooming house at St‑Hubert and Ontario. BEI are investigating.
The Gazette reports two other incidents involving police gunning men down in other locations overnight. One is given out as in St‑Michel and the other as “in the Villeray–St‑Michel–Parc‑Extension borough” but nothing more specific.
There is some seriously poor reporting on all these incidents. No location is given in this piece from CP, for example, which could refer to either of the incidents reported vaguely in the Gazette.
Likewise, no location is given in this piece from TVA either.
New layer in the incident map for shootings by police – as far as ascertainable by the vague locations given in these items.
bob 12:36 on 2025-04-01 Permalink
Crime journalism may as well not exist anymore, because “journalists” are wary of law suits. “Something happened (we won’t tell you exactly what) somewhere (we won’t tell you exactly where) and there were people involved (we won’t tell you who).” There. No facts, so no defamation. What a contrast to the olden days where the story would tell you what the dead guy had for breakfast, and publish quotes from the alleged murderer’s fourth grade teacher below a photo of his mistress. But the underwear-shaped statements from the police are thinned out to nothing also, because they don’t want to say anything that might be construed as relating a fact that can be used in court in case a constable shot a guy holding a potato.