Just a side note: What a weirdly written article.
It’s as if the author played “52 Card Pickup” with the facts in the story.
Beginning with the headline.
Journalist writing has been on the decline for quite some time now.
Bretbart says the guy was attacking police officers with an ‘axe’....
No kidding
I guess an officer and his K9 were stabbed. Dog died. I think the officer did too
“A Syrian man”
A FACT.
Admirable start.
“was shot in the Netherlands”
... and we all now how painful that can be . . .
Seriously, though: past tense?
Who did the shooting? A sniper from a school book depository? A turncoat collaborator?
“on Wednesday”
A FACT.
“after he allegedly shouted “Allahu akbar”
Aww. Waffling.
Somebody must have reported this to the author, just like everything else in the story, but nothing else is clothed in the gossamer term “allegedly.”
“from a balcony and”
[I guess “allegedly” no longer covers the remaining part of this sentence]
“killed a K-9 officer.”
So far, so good, by modern journalistic standards:
He allegedly yelled something.
He was definitely killed the K-9 officer somehow.
He was shot somehow.
“Police tried to calm the man,”
. . . either before,
during,
or after the yelling,
the killing of the dog,
or the shooting (of him) (though I think that unlikely) . . .
“who was in Schiedam,”
A FACT.
“near the port city of Rotterdam,”
. . . may be helpful to readers to get the location of where this happened . . .
“but were unsuccessful.”
The killing of the dog made — or should have made — that fact painfully obvious to readers already.
The fact that the perpetrator was shot would have taken care of that tiny minority of readers still unable to assess the outcome.
“Law enforcement agents . . .”
(It may have been crowded, what with a “K-9 officer,” “police,” “law enforcement agents,” and a “police dog.”)
“entered the apartment and the 26-year-old man attacked them, police said.”
This is the awful reality that all police and their dogs brave every time they enter a residence or any other situation. There’s just no telling when a deadly attack will happen. God protect them each and every time.
He tried to do that but wasn't playing with a full deck. ;-)