What They Don't Say Is Often More Telling Than What They Do...

Back on the sleepy Sunday after Christmas, criminal shenanigans were occurring in Thetford, when what appeared to be a simple motoring collision rapidly became something else:

My ears pricked up at the lack of the usual boilerplate for these incidents, something along the lines of 'Armed police challenged the man who failed to comply and was subsequently shot'. The lack makes me wonder if a warning wasn't issued, which is rare and only occurs when they have no time to do so (and even then, they often lie thst they did so even when it would be understandable that they didn't).

It got stranger - albeity a little more explanatory - when reporters found witnesses who claimed the man pointed his gun at a woman, but it appears now that this was before the ARV appeared on the scene. 

Then this line kept cropping up in online reports:

The man was approached by officers and, a short time later, shot by police from a short distance away.

Again, no mention of a challenge and surely suspects are always shot 'from a short distance away'? Isn't that the point of a gun, after all? Then there was a local news report stating that the next of kin had been contacted, yet still no name, no details other than age, in his sixties (!), with a report stating that the name will be released after a post mortem. The MSM is pretty quiet on this one too.

The authorities didn't waste time rolling out some typical boilerplate statements, however:

Terry Jermy, Labour MP for South West Norfolk, said: "Fortunately, incidents like this are incredibly rare and Thetford remains a safe place to live."

Not mentioning which aspects of it are the rarest, I see, Tel 'ol' son....